Ken Starr, the Reagan judicial appointee who famously led the prosecution against former President Bill Clinton and his administration during the 1990s Whitewater scandal, died Tuesday of complications from a surgery at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center in Houston, according to his family. He was 76.

Starr recently regained fame when he joined Donald Trump’s legal team for the former president’s first impeachment trial.

“We are deeply saddened with the loss of our dear and loving Father and Grandfather, whom we admired for his prodigious work ethic, but who always put his family first,” his son Randall P. Starr said in a statement. “The love, energy, endearing sense of humor, and fun-loving interest Dad exhibited to each of us was truly special, and we cherish the many wonderful memories we were able to experience with him.”

Starr devoted much of his life to government work and teaching the law. Through his varied GOP career, he was a U.S. solicitor general under George H.W. Bush, a United States circuit judge, a counselor and chief of staff to U.S. Attorney General William French Smith, a law professor of 25 years, a dean of Pepperdine’s law school, and the president and chancellor of Baylor University….
(Excerpt from Yahoo! News)

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