William Averell Harriman (November 15, 1891 – July 26, 1986) was an American Democratic politician, banker, and diplomat. He was the son of railroad baron E. H. Harriman. He served as Secretary of Commerce under President Harry Truman and later as the 48th Governor of New York. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1952, and again in 1956 when he was endorsed by President Truman but lost to Adlai Stevenson II both times.
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| - William Averell Harriman (November 15, 1891 – July 26, 1986) was an American Democratic politician, banker, and diplomat. He was the son of railroad baron E. H. Harriman. He served as Secretary of Commerce under President Harry Truman and later as the 48th Governor of New York. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1952, and again in 1956 when he was endorsed by President Truman but lost to Adlai Stevenson II both times.
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| - Kitty Lawrence , Marie Whitney , Pamela Hayward
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| - Governor of New York
- U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union
- U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom
- U.S. Secretary of Commerce
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Cause of Death
| - Natural causes
- Killed in collapsing building
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- 1946(xsd:integer)
- 1955(xsd:integer)
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| - Nelson Rockefeller
- Charles Sawyer
- Lewis W. Douglas
- Walter Bedell Smith
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| - Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., Republican Party , Democratic Party
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| - Diplomat, politician, banker
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| - 1952(xsd:integer)
- 1986(xsd:integer)
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| - Edward Harriman, Mary Averell
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| - William Averell Harriman (November 15, 1891 – July 26, 1986) was an American Democratic politician, banker, and diplomat. He was the son of railroad baron E. H. Harriman. He served as Secretary of Commerce under President Harry Truman and later as the 48th Governor of New York. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1952, and again in 1956 when he was endorsed by President Truman but lost to Adlai Stevenson II both times. Harriman served President Franklin D. Roosevelt as special envoy to Europe and served as the U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union and U.S. Ambassador to Britain. He served in numerous U.S. diplomatic assignments in the John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson Administrations. He was a core member of the group of foreign policy elders known as "The Wise Men".
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