Lee Loevinger, attorney and author, is best known as a member of the Federal Communications Commission, 1963-1968. He was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1913. After completing his education at the University of Minnesota (B.A., 1933; J.D., 1936), Loevinger practiced law in Missouri and Minnesota. He worked as an attorney for the federal government, serving with the National Labor Relations Board (1937-1941) and with the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (attorney, 1941-1946, and assistant attorney general in charge of the division, 1961-1963). He also acted as a special counsel to the Senate Subcommittee on Small Business (1951-1952) and to the attorney general (1963-1964). In addition, Loevinger has taught at the University of Minnesota and American University, chaired the Minnesota Atomic Development Problems Committee (1957-1960), and served as a justice on the Minnesota Supreme Court (1960-1961). His publications include: The Law of Free Enterprise (1949); An Introduction to Legal Logic (1952); and, as editor and contributor, Basic Data on Atomic Development (1958).
Appointed to the Federal Communications Commission in 1963, Loevinger established himself as a critic of government regulation of broadcasting. Since leaving the Commission in 1968, he has served as a vice president of an investment banking firm in Minneapolis, practiced law with a Washington, D. C., firm, and been a member of the Administrative Conference of the United States (1972-1974) and a delegate to a White House Conference on Inflation (1974).
