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Last update: January 5, 2009 - 9:14 PM

Griffin Bell, 90, a corporate lawyer and federal appeals court judge who became the first attorney general of President Jimmy Carter, his longtime friend and fellow Georgian, died Jan. 5 in Atlanta of pancreatic cancer. In his post-government career, Bell enjoyed a reputation as a courtly troubleshooter for major corporations. He was named to many blue-ribbon government commissions and specialized in conducting internal probes of alleged mismanagement at white-collar firms. As a fast-rising young lawyer in Atlanta, Bell was a prodigious fundraiser for Democrats and helped engineer an overwhelming victory in Georgia for presidential nominee John F. Kennedy in 1960.

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