Ken Star has a prominent work career but his fame upgraded when he was on Bill Clinton's case
Kenneth Starr, a former federal prosecutor who oversaw the Clintons' Whitewater probe in the 1990s, passed away on Tuesday at a hospital in Houston from complications following surgery, according to his family. He was 76.
Starr, who was raised in a small Texas town, entered the Beltway legal community not long after completing his legal studies at Duke University. In the 1970s, he worked as a law clerk for Chief Justice Warren Burger of the Supreme Court.
In 1983, the Reagan administration appointed him to a position as a federal judge. After that, he worked for President George H.W. Bush as a solicitor general.
After being chosen by a three-judge panel to oversee an inquiry into real estate purchases made by the Clintons when Bill Clinton was establishing his political career in Arkansas, Starr found himself regularly in the news in the 1990s.
He is survived by his three daughters, nine grandchildren, and his wife of 52 years, Alice Mendell Starr.
"We are deeply saddened with the loss of our dear and loving Father and Grandfather, whom we admired for his prodigious work ethic, but who always put his family first," his son, Randall Starr, said in the statement.