Ted Rinehart died June 11, 2013, in Montgomery, Ala.

Ted was born in New York City. He prepped at Andover. At Princeton he majored in English, joined Cannon Club, and was a member of the varsity track team.

After college he became an officer in the 10th Field Artillery Battalion, Third Infantry Division, which fought in North Africa, Sicily, and Italy. Ted was captured by the Germans at the Anzio beachhead and spent the rest of the war in a POW camp in Szubin, Poland.

After the war Ted graduated from Harvard Law School, then returned to the Army during the Korean War. He ultimately retired from the Army Reserve as a lieutenant colonel.

In 1955, Ted and his wife, Barbara, moved to Montgomery, where he spent the next six years as assistant attorney general and superintendent of insurance for Alabama. In 1958 he represented Alabama before the U.S. Supreme Court in the important 14th Amendment case, NAACP v. Alabama . Ultimately, he and Gov. John Patterson
formed a law firm and practiced together for 20 years.

Undergraduate Class of 1942