JUST IN: Ken Starr, prosecutor who probed the Clinton administration, has died at 76 years old, according to his family.
Raised in small-town East Texas, Starr was described as a "chubby little fellow" and straight-A student in oneprofile from 1998. Starr earned a law degree from Duke University before clerking for U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger in the mid-1970s. After a stint in private practice, Starr joined the Justice Department at the beginning of the Reagan administration.
By the early 1990s, Starr was considered a rising star in the Republican Party. His name was floated as a prospective replacement for retiring Supreme Court Justice William Brennan in 1990. Starr also briefly flirted with a run for U.S. Senate in Virginia.In 1994, however, Starr agreed to inherit a fledgling investigation into real estate investments made by the newly minted president and his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, in Arkansas, where President Clinton had previously been governor.
The lewd nature of the Lewinsky affair, Starr's ubiquitous interactions with the press, and Clinton's own efforts to obscure his actions made global headlines on a near-daily basis in the late 1990s. The media coverage of the scandal made Starr a household name. Starr's findings ultimately led to the impeachment of Clinton in the House of Representatives. Clinton was later acquitted in the Senate.
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