James D. St. Clair (1920 - March 10, 2001) was an American lawyer, and practiced law for many years in Boston with the firm of Hale and Dorr. 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... March 10 is the 69th day of the year (70th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ...

He first gained notice while assisting Joseph Welch in the Army-McCarthy Hearings of 1954. (It was initially planned that he would share that role with Fred Fisher, and it was Fisher whom Joseph McCarthy attacked, eliciting Welch's "Have you left no sense of decency?" speech). Joseph Nye Welch (October 22, 1890 – October 6, 1960) was the head attorney for the United States Army while it was under investigation by Joseph McCarthys Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations for Communist activities. ... Early in 1954, the U.S. Army accused Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (Republican, Wisconsin), and his chief counsel, Roy Cohn, of pressuring the Army to give favorable treatment to former McCarthy aide and friend of Cohns, G. David Schine. ... Frederick G. Fred Fisher, Jr. ... Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin between 1947 and 1957. ...

Much later in this his career he was Richard Nixon's counsel, most notably before the United States Supreme Court in United States v. Nixon, where he said Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. ... The Supreme Court Building, Washington, D.C. The Supreme Court Building, Washington, D.C., (large image) The Supreme Court of the United States, located in Washington, D.C., is the highest court (see supreme court) in the United States; that is, it has ultimate judicial authority within the United States... Holding The Supreme Court does have the final voice in determining constitutional questions; no person, not even the President of the United States, is completely above law; and the president cannot use executive privilege as an excuse to withhold evidence that is demonstrably relevant in a criminal trial. ...

The President wants me to argue that he is as powerful a monarch as Louis XIV, only four years at a time, and is not subject to the processes of any court in the land except the court of impeachment.

He also represented Nixon before the House Judiciary Committee as they considered impeachment charges against him. “Sun King” redirects here. ... Depiction of the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson, then President of the United States, in 1868. ... U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, or (more commonly) the House Judiciary Committee, is a standing committee of the United States House of Representatives. ...

He was born and raised in Illinois, and studied at Augustana College, the University of Illinois and Harvard Law School.

He graduated from Moline High School, Moline, IL, in 1937.