Robert Treuhaft

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Robert Edward "Bob" Treuhaft (August 8, 1912 – November 11, 2001) was an American lawyer and the second husband of Jessica Mitford.

The son of Hungarian immigrants, he worked for labor union and radical left causes much of his life. From the early-to-mid-1940s to 1958 he and Mitford were members of the Communist Party USA.

In 1963 he provided Mitford with background and legal information that was important for Mitford's best-selling exposé of the funeral industry, which he also unofficially co-authored, The American Way of Death. He worked for the Oakland, California, law firm of Oakland, Grossman, Sawyer & Edises and later founded his own Oakland-based firm Treuhaft, Walker and Bernstein, where Hillary Rodham Clinton worked as a summer intern in 1971.

External links

Consumers Cooperative of Berkeley Oral History Collection
Spartacus Educational biography
Paul Lewis (December 2, 2001). "Robert Treuhaft, Lawyer Who Inspired Funeral Exposé, Dies at 89". The New York Times.
"Robert E. Treuhaft: Civil rights lawyer and inspiration behind the writings of Jessica Mitford". The Times. November 16, 2001.

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Name	Treuhaft, Robert Edward
Alternative names
Short description	American lawyer
Date of birth	August 8, 1912
Place of birth
Date of death	November 11, 2001
Place of death	Midlothain, Texas

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