Leon Jaworski was a Texas lawyer who served the U.S. government in several capacities, most notably as Watergate special prosecutor from 1973 to 1974. In this position Jaworski successfully argued to the Supreme Court that President Richard M. Nixon had to turn over secret White House tape recordings. Within days of the release of the recordings, Nixon resigned the presidency to avoid impeachment. Jaworski work led to a federal grand jury naming Nixon as an unindicted coconspirator in the break-in and cover-up by White House operatives of the Democratic Party National Committee's headquarters in the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C.

Jaworski was born on September 19, 1905 in Waco, Texas. He enrolled at Baylor University at age sixteen and one year later he was admitted to the law school. Following graduation in 1925, he earned a master of laws degree from George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

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