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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | George W. Haley |
| Address |
Silver Spring, Maryland , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
| Born |
August 28, 1925
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| Died | March 13, 2015
(89 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | Juan Croniqueur
Apr 08, 2023 11:28pm |
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| Info | Attorney George Williford Boyce Haley was born on August 28, 1925 in Henning, Tennessee. He grew up on a number of college campuses, as both his parents were university professors. As young boy while living at A&M College at Normal, Alabama, he met Dr. George Washington Carver and musician Marion Anderson. While a student in high school he played the french horn with the A&M College marching band. In 1943 Haley graduated from Bordentown High School a military boarding school in Bordentown, New Jersey. Two months after graduation, he was drafted into the military and stationed at Fort Dix in New Jersey, where he spent the next three years.
From 1946 until 1949, Haley attended Morehouse College with fellow students Martin Luther King, Jr and Lerone Bennett. After receiving his bachelor's of arts degree, he accepted a challenge from his father and enrolled at the University of Arkansas Law School where he and fellow African American C.C. Mercer were the only blacks at the school.
While at Arkansas he endured horrendous acts of racism, including having a bag of urine thrown in his face and facing daily verbal insults. At the end of his first year he scored the highest marks on his final examinations and by the end of his second year he was writing articles for the Law Review. He received his law degree in 1952.
After receiving his law degree, he joined the firm of Stevens Jackson in Kansas, often referred to as the architects of the landmark civil rights case, Brown v. the Board of Education. While still working in private practice, Haley served as Deputy City Attorney from 1954-1964. He then embarked on a political career, when he was elected as a Kansas State Senator. He held that post from 1964-1968.
In 1966, Haley unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. Congress; nonetheless he still landed in Washington, D.C. In 1969, Haley was appointed Chief Counsel of the Urban Mass Transportation Administration (Federal Transit Administration) by President Richard Nixon. From 1973-1976, he served as Associate Director for Equal Employment Opportunity at the United States Information Agency (USIA). Upon leaving USIA, he became a partner in the law firm of Obermayer, Rebmann, Maxwell and Hippel of Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. before establishing his own firm in 1981. In 1986, he made another unsuccessful bid for the U.S. Senate in Maryland.
In 1990, President George Bush appointed Haley Chairman of the Postal Rate Commission, where he served for the next eight years, after being re-commissioned by President Bill Clinton. In April of 1998, President Clinton named him Ambassador to the Republic of The Gambia in West Africa, where he served until 2001.
Currently Haley serves as the executor of his brother's, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Alex Haley, estate.
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