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After five more years in private legal practice, DuVal entered his public service during the [[Republican Party (USA)|Republican]] administration of President [[Dwight Eisenhower]], serving in the [[U.S. Department of Defense]] in positions including: Special Assistant to the Undersecretary of the Army (1951-1952), Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of the Defense (1953), and Assistant General Counsel (international Affairs) (1953-1955). He then became General Counsel for the [[U.S. Information Agency]] (1955-1959). In 1959, Du Val served as Associate General Counsel for the President's Committee to Study the United States Military Assistance Program.
DuVal returned to private practice in 1959, with the Washington D.C. office of the New York law firm [[Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy]], where he worked in legislative affairs until retiring in 1970. After Democrat [[John F. Kennedy]] defeated Republican Presidential candidate [[Richard M. Nixon]] in the 1960 Presidential election DuVal joked that he rebuffed an attempt to purchase his [[McLean, Virginia]] home by Attorney General designate [[Robert F. Kennedy]]
As a Virginia legislator (a part time position) for nearly three decades, DuVal attributed his success to courtesy, patience and persistence.<ref>Washington Post obituary</ref> First elected to the [[Virginia House of Delegates]] in 1965 as a Democrat representing [[Fairfax County, Virginia]] after the U.S. Supreme Court decision in [[Davis v. Mann]] struck down the [[Byrd Organization]] reapportionment that had shortchanged Northern Virginia, Du Val was twice re-elected as delegate.<ref>http://dela.state.va.us/dela/Membios.nsf/94f6e9b9c9b5678f85256b1b00732227?SearchView</ref> However, when he ran for U.S. Congress in 1966 against incumbent conservative Republican [[Joel Broyhill]] to represent [[Virginia's 10th congressional district]], he lost. The following year DuVal was one of only two northern Virginia Democratic delegates winning re-electing in what became a Republican landslide after an address by President [[Richard Nixon]] (and the collapse of the Byrd Organization).
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