Background
Hornblower is the great-grandson of Henry Hornblower, the founder of Hornblower & Weeks.
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Ralph Hornblower
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Education
Hornblower graduated in 1970 from Harvard, and obtained a law degree in 1974 from the University of Virginia Law School.
Career
He joined the United States. Department of Justice in 1974, first working as a trial attorney in the Special Litigation Section of the Department"s Civil Rights Division. Subsequently, in the post-Watergate period under Attorneys General Edward Levi and Griffin Bell, he was assigned to oversee all matters of ethics and professional responsibility in the Justice Department. Leaving the Justice Department in 1980, and after spending one year in private practice, Hornblower began a second career as a professional concert and opera singer by spending six years in Paris.
As a tenor, he performed principal roles in Turandot and Carmen at Opera Pacific in Costa Mesa, California and at opera festivals in Aix-en-Provence, France, and Buxton, England.
Between 1969 and 2000, Hornblower was married to Margot Roosevelt great-granddaughter of United States. president Theodore Roosevelt.
