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Obama Attorney General named

Published:Wednesday | November 19, 2008 | 1:08 PM

United States President-elect Barack Obama is reportedly poised to name a lawyer with Caribbean roots as the nation\'s first African-American attorney general.



New Yorker Eric Holder, whose father was born in Barbados, served as deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration and as co-chair of the Obama campaign.



He has not been formally nominated and has not said whether he will accept the offer to become Attorney General.