Lewis B. Kaden was an American businessman, attorney, legal scholar, and former political advisor who served as vice chairman of

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from 2005 to 2013.

Early life and education

Kaden was raised in

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. His father operated a small trucking company. He graduated from

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and

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. After he graduated from Harvard Law School, Kaden joined the legislative staff of U.S. Senator

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Career

By age 26, he was on Kennedy's staff during the senator's four-month run for president, which ended with Kennedy's assassination in 1968. In 1970, Kaden ran as an anti-war candidate in the Democratic primary for the U.S. House of Representatives in

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against Representative

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. Kaden is a member of the

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. From 1974 to 1976, he served as counsel to the

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. Prior to joining Citigroup, Kaden had spent most of his career in academia and working as a

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. He spent 21 years with the law firm of

Davis Polk & Wardwell Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, better known as Davis Polk is a white-shoe, international law firm headquartered in New York City with 980 attorneys worldwide and offices in Washington, D.C., Northern California, London, Paris, Madrid, Hong Kong, Beiji ...

and also taught labor relations and

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as an adjunct professor at

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. For nearly a decade before entering private practice, Kaden was a tenured professor at Columbia. In 2017, Kaden joined Baton Systems Inc.

Personal life

He is married to Ellen Kaden. In June 2020 at the age of 78, Kaden died of injures related to a fall.

References

External links

Citigroup Profiles - Lewis B. KadenMarkle Foundation - Lewis B. Kaden
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