predecessor successor death_date birth_place president death_place title party birth_date order term_start image article_title term_end birth_name alma_mater
j. lee rankin thurgood marshall may 29 , 2004 may 17 , 1912 plainfield , new jersey , u.s. john f. kennedy lyndon b. johnson brooksville , maine , u.s. united states solicitor general democrat may 17 , 1912 31st january 1961 archibaldcox.jpg archibald cox
 july 1965 archibald cox , jr. . harvard university
archibald cox

archibald cox , jr. -lrb- may 17 , 1912 -- may 29 , 2004 -rrb- was an american lawyer and law professor who served as u.s. solicitor general under president john f. kennedy and later as a special prosecutor during the watergate scandal .
during his career , he was a pioneering expert on labor law and also an authority on constitutional law .
`` the journal of legal studies '' has identified cox as one of the most cited legal scholars of the 20th century .
