| LC control no. | n 80104702 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Scranton, William Warren, 1917-2013 |
| See also | Pennsylvania. Governor (1963-1967 : Scranton) |
| Located | Harrisburg, Pa. Washington, D.C. Dalton, Pa. |
| Birth date | 1917-07-19 |
| Death date | 2013-07-28 |
| Place of birth | Madison, Conn. |
| Place of death | Montecito, Calif. |
| Field of activity | Political science Diplomacy |
| Affiliation | United States. Congress. House Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) Yale University Yale Law School United States. Army. Air Corps |
| Profession or occupation | Legislator Governors--Pennsylvania |
| Found in | Yale university. Class of 1939. History of the class, 1939- NUCMC files (Scranton, William Warren, 1917; Gov. of Pa.; candidate for GOP Pres. nom. in 1964) WWA, 1974/75 (Scranton, William Warren; b. 1917; former gov. of Pa.; s. Worthington & Marion Margery (Warren) Scranton; m. Mary Lowe Chamberlin; member 8th Cong.; member Carnegie Comm. on Higher Educ.; chmn. bd. Northeastern Nat'l Bank of Pa.; exec. com., Trilateral Comm.; trustee, Yale & other univ.) NUCMC data from Pa. Hist. & Mus. Comm. for Taylor, M.H. Papers, 1896-1982 (William Scranton, governor of Pa.) Register of governors of the U.S.A., 1776-1974 (Scranton, William; governor of Pa., 1963-1967) Biog. dir. of the United States Congress, accessed Apr. 16, 2012: (Scranton, William Warren, a Representative from Pennsylvania; b. Madison, New Haven County, Conn., July 19, 1917; attended the Hotchkiss school; B.A., Yale University, New Haven, Conn., 1939; LL.B., Yale Law School, New Haven, Conn., 1946; U.S. Army Air Corps, pilot with overseas service in Africa, the Middle East, and South America, 1941-1945; associated with the International Textbook Co., and Haddon Craftsman, Inc., 1947-1952, rising to position of vice president; president of the Scranton-Lackawanna Trust Co., 1954-1956; chairman of the board of Northeastern Pennsylvania Broadcasting, Inc., 1953-1959; special assistant to Secretary of State Christian A. Herter, 1959 and 1960; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-seventh Congress (Jan. 3, 1961-Jan. 3, 1963); was not a candidate for renomination in 1962, but was a successful candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania; Governor of Pennsylvania, 1963-1967; candidate for Republican presidential nomination in 1964; delegate and chairman of Judiciary Committee, Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention, 1967-1968; vice chairman, President's Commission on insurance for Riot-torn Areas, 1967; United States Ambassador, 1969; member, President's Advisory Committee on Arms Limitation and Disarmament; representative of United States to United Nations, Mar. 15, 1976, to Jan. 19, 1977; resident of Dalton, Pa.) New York times (online), viewed July 30, 2013 (in obituary published July 29: William W. Scranton; b. William Warren Scranton, July 19, 1917, Madison, Conn.; d. Sunday [July 28, 2013], Montecito, Calif., aged 96; moderate Republican governor of Pennsylvania from 1963 to 1967, who lost a run for his party's presidential nomination in 1964 and later served as the United States representative to the United Nations) |
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