Word: mueller
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...Mueller was born in New York, where his father worked for the DuPont corporation. After attending St. Paul's, an elite New England prep school, he graduated from Princeton in 1966. He attended New York University graduate school the next year and earned a Masters in International Relations...
...while others of his generation were attempting to avoid the draft, Mueller enlisted in the Marine Corps. After officer candidate school, Army Ranger School and Army jump school, he shipped out to Vietnam, where he commanded a rifle platoon. Toward the end of his tour he became aide-de-camp to the commanding general of the Third Marine Division. He was decorated with the Bronze Star, the Purple Heart, two Navy Commendation Medals and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry...
...Upon his return to the States, Mueller enrolled in the University of Virginia law school and earned his law degree in 1973 and joined the San Francisco law firm of Pillsbury, Madison and Sutro the same year. In 1976, he became a prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's office in San Francisco. He moved to Boston in 1982 and became a prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's office there. When his boss, William Weld, moved to Washington in 1986 to become assistant attorney general for the criminal division under Attorney General Ed Meese, Mueller became the U.S. Attorney...
...After President Bush's defeat in 1992, Mueller accepted a partnership in the blue-chip Boston law firm of Hale and Doar. To the surprise of his former associates, in 1995 he applied for a position in the homicide section of the U.S. Attorney's office in the District of Columbia. This was a huge comedown for a man who had supervised 900 Justice Department prosecutors, but Margolis says Mueller was caught up in the idealism of public service, explaining, "There's just too many young people dying violently in this city, and I want to do my share...
...Meanwhile, his wife Ann was a teacher specializing in helping children with learning problems at a private school in Washington. Mueller became chief of the U.S. Attorney's office's homicide section where his reputation as a passionate prosecutor came to the attention of Janet Reno, who in 1998 asked him to go to San Francisco to beef up the U.S. Attorney's office, which was then beset by burgeoning computer crime...