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  Harriman, W. Averell
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AffiliationDemocratic  
 
NameW. Averell Harriman
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Harriman, New York , United States
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Born November 15, 1891
DiedJuly 26, 1986 (94 years)
ContributorThomas Walker
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Dec 01, 2017 11:10pm
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InfoWilliam Averell Harriman
Harriman, the son of the railway magnate, E. H. Harriman, was born in New York City on 15th November, 1891. He joined his father's Union Pacific Company in 1915 and became chairman of the board in 1932.

Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Harriman as U.S. Ambassador of the Soviet Union in 1943. He held the post until 1946 when Harry S. Truman appointed him as Secretary of Commerce. Harriman worked on the Marshall Plan and served as national security adviser during the Korean War.

A member of the Democratic Party Harriman was elected governor of New York in 1954. After two unsuccessful attempts to become the Democratic presidential nomination in 1952 and 1956 Harriman served in several posts under President John F. Kennedy. This included negotiating the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1963.

President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Harriman as ambassador-at-large for Southeast Asian affairs in 1965. He also served as chief US negotiator when preliminary peace talks opened in France between the United States and North Vietnam in 1968.

Harriman lost this position as US negotiator under President Richard Nixon but returned to office in 1978 when he was appointed the senior member of the US Delegation to the United Nations General Assembly's Special Session on Disarmament. William Averell Harriman died in 1986.






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DISCUSSION
Importance? 7.50000 Average

FAMILY
Wife Pamela Beryl Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman Sep 27, 1971-Jul 26, 1986
Father E. H. Harriman 1848-1909
Stepson Winston Spencer-Churchill 1940-2010

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RACES
  04/04/1963 Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  11/04/1958 NY Governor Lost 44.71% (-10.03%)
  08/17/1956 US President - D Convention Lost 15.27% (-50.62%)
  07/01/1956 US President - D Primaries Lost 0.06% (-50.65%)
  03/13/1956 NH US Vice President - D Primary Lost 19.56% (-26.93%)
  11/02/1954 NY Governor Won 49.61% (+0.22%)
  09/21/1954 NY Governor - D Convention Won 53.14% (+6.29%)
  07/26/1952 US President - D Convention Lost 7.50% (-29.89%)
  07/01/1952 US President - D Primaries Lost 0.40% (-64.15%)
  10/06/1946 US Secretary of Commerce Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  04/02/1946 US Ambassador to the United Kingdom Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  10/07/1943 US Ambassador to the USSR Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
ENDORSEMENTS
US President - D Primaries - Jun 06, 1972 D Edmund S. Muskie