Thornburgh at the mic' during a TMI press briefing.
(born in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on
July 16,
1932) was the
Republican governor of the
U.S. state of
Pennsylvania from
1979 to
1987. His handling of the
Three Mile Island crisis doubtless helped persuade
George H. W. Bush to tap him for
U.S. Attorney General (
1988–
1991). He resigned as Attorney General in 1991 to run for the open
U.S. Senate seat of the late
H. John Heinz III but in a surprise upset was defeated in the November
special election by
Democrat Harris Wofford.
In 2004, Thornburgh was one-half of the review panel established by CBS to investigate the problems within their news organization because of the Killian memos. [1]
External links
|- style="text-align: center;"
| width="30%" |Preceded by:
Edwin Meese
| width="40%" style="text-align: center;" |Attorney General of the United States
1988–1991
| width="30%" |Succeeded by:
William Barr
