Bayless Manning | |
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| Born | Bayless Andrew Manning March 29, 1923 Bristow, Oklahoma, U.S. |
| Died | September 18, 2011 (aged 88) Boise, Idaho, U.S. |
| Education | Yale University (BA, LLB) |
Bayless Andrew Manning (March 29, 1923 – September 18, 2011) was an American lawyer, law professor, writer and expert of corporate law. [1] He served as the dean of Stanford Law School from 1964 to 1971. [2] He left Stanford in 1971 and became the first president of the Council on Foreign Relations. [1] [3]
Manning worked as the editor of the Yale Law Journal as a law student before graduating from Yale Law School as valedictorian of the class of 1949. [1] He then clerked for Justice Stanley Forman Reed, an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. [2]
Manning taught as a professor at Yale University from 1955 to 1964. [1] He simultaneously served as a member of the President's Advisory Panel on Ethics and Conflicts of Interest in Government beginning in 1960. [1] Manning became the dean of Stanford Law School from 1964 to 1971. [1] In 1971, Cyrus R. Vance and David Rockefeller soon appointed Manning as the first president of the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR). [1] [3] Following the end of his tenure at CFR, Manning joined Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, a law firm based in New York City. [1]
In 2001, Manning was awarded the Certificate of Meritorious Achievement from the United States Office of Government Ethics for the Executive Branch. [1]
Manning moved to Boise, Idaho, in the late 1980s. [1] He died at his home in Boise on September 18, 2011, at the age of 88. [2] He was survived by his wife, Alexandra Zekovic, five children, and six grandchildren. [2]
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