Howard A. Dawson, Jr. (October 23, 1922 – July 15, 2016) was a judge of the

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. Born in

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,''Official Congressional Directory'' (1979), p. 744. Dawson graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, D.C., in 1940. Following the outbreak of

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, he served as a captain in the U.S. Army

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from 1943–45, spending two years in

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. He went on to earn a B.S. in commerce from

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in 1946. Following college, he earned his J.D. with honors from The George Washington University Law School in 1949. At George Washington he was the president of the case club and secretary-treasurer of the student bar association. He was appointed by President

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as judge on Tax Court of the United States, on August 21, 1962, for a term ending June 1, 1970, and was reappointed by President

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on June 2, 1970, for a term ending June 1, 1985. This was one of several appointments which went against a previously observed senate resolution prohibiting the appointment to that body of persons recently employed by the Treasury Department. He served as chief judge of the Tax Court from July 1, 1973, to June 30, 1977, and again from July 1, 1983, to June 1, 1985. He retired on June 2, 1985. He was recalled as senior judge to perform judicial duties in 1990 and served in that role until his death in 2016.

Career

Before being a judge, Dawson had been in private practice in Washington, D.C., from 1949–50. He then served in the

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, at the Internal Revenue Service, as an attorney and later as counsel, before his appointment to the Tax Court. After his time on the bench, in the 1980s and 1990s, he become a professor at the

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Law School, the

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Law School, and finally at the University of San Diego.

Organizations

* Member of District of Columbia Bar, 1949, * Georgia Bar *

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(Section of Taxation) * Federal Bar Association *

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* George Washington University Law Alumni Association

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References

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