Jeb Stuart Magruder
Jeb Stuart Magruder (November 5, 1934 – May 11, 2014) was an American businessman and high-level political operative in the Republican Party who served time in prison for his role in the Watergate scandal.
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| Born | Jeb Stuart Magruder November 5, 1934 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | May 11, 2014 (aged 79) Danbury, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Education | Williams College (BA) University of Chicago (MBA) Princeton Theological Seminary (MDiv) |
He served President Richard Nixon in various capacities, including acting as special assistant to the President for domestic policy development, and later as deputy director of the president's 1972 re-election campaign, Committee for the Re-Election of the President (CRP). In August 1973, Magruder pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to wiretap, obstruct justice and defraud the United States. He served seven months in federal prison.
Magruder later attended Princeton Theological Seminary and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister. He spoke publicly about ethics and his role in the Watergate scandal. In the 1990s and early 2000s, he gave interviews in which he changed his accounts of actions by various participants in the Watergate coverup, including claiming that Nixon ordered the break-ins.