Robert Treuhaft

Robert Treuhaft

Robert Edward 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, "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 Burnstein, where, in 1971, a summer intern named Hillary Rodham worked.

External links

* [http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt4x0nb0bf/ Consumers Cooperative of Berkeley Oral History Collection]
* [http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAtreuhaft.htm Spartacus Educational biography]
* [http://www.mitford.org/nyobit.html obituary] in the New York Times
* [http://www.mitford.org/londonbob.html obituary] in The Times


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