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Starr, Kenneth Winston, 1946–, American public official; b. Vernon, Tex. Educated at Harding College and George Washington Univ., he studied law at Duke Univ. After clerking for Chief Justic Warren Burger and working in the Justice Dept., he served on the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Later he was solicitor general (1989–93) in the Bush administration, then practiced law privately. In Aug., 1994, he was named Whitewater Whitewater, popular name for a failed 1970s Arkansas real estate venture by the Whitewater Development Corp., in which Governor (later President) Bill Clinton and his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton , were partners; the name is also used for the political ramifications
..... Click the link for more information. prosecutor, replacing Robert Fiske. Starr's office gradually expanded the scope of its investigations of President Clinton Clinton, Bill (William Jefferson Clinton), 1946–, 42d President of the United States (1993–2001), b. Hope, Ark. His father died before he was born, and he was originally named William Jefferson Blythe 4th, but after his mother remarried, he assumed the
..... Click the link for more information. and his administration, but without striking success, until, in Jan., 1998, his inquiry was expanded to included the president's role in what became the Lewinsky scandal Lewinsky scandal (ləwĭn`skē)
..... Click the link for more information. . Clinton's defenders criticized the conservative Starr as ideologically motivated, and his report to the House of Representatives, setting out a case for impeachment impeachment, formal accusation issued by a legislature against a public official charged with crime or other serious misconduct. In a looser sense the term is sometimes applied also to the trial by the legislature that may follow.
..... Click the link for more information. , was attacked as prejudicially detailed. After the impeachment and acquittal of the president, Starr seemed to agree that the law establishing the independent counsel independent counsel, in U.S. law, a judicially appointed investigator of charges of misdeeds by high government officials. Originally termed "special prosecutor," the position was first created by the 1978 Ethics in Government Act.
..... Click the link for more information. should not be renewed, although he strongly defended his actions. The law lapsed in June, 1999, and he resigned the Whitewater post in October. He has written First among Equals (2002), a conservative examination of the late-20th-century Supreme Court.