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W. Averell Harriman

Personal data
Date of birthNovember 15, 1891
Place of birthNew York City, New York
Date of deathJuly 26, 1986(age 94)
Place of deathYorktown Heights, New York
Political partyDemocrat
SpouseKitty Lanier Lawrence (divorced)
Marie Norton Whitney (her death)
Pamela Beryl Digby Churchill Hayward
Alma materYale University
48th Governor of New York
In officeJanuary 1, 1955 - December 31, 1958
LieutenantGeorge De Luca
Succeeded byNelson A. Rockefeller
Preceded byThomas E. Dewey
United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union
In office23 October 1943 - 24 January 1946
PresidentHarry S. Truman
Succeeded byWalter Bedell Smith
Preceded byWilliam H. Standley
United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom
In office1946 - 1946
Succeeded byLewis W. Douglas
Preceded byJohn G. Winant
11th United States Secretary of Commerce
In officeOctober 7, 1946 - April 22, 1948
PresidentHarry S. Truman
Succeeded byCharles W. Sawyer
Preceded byHenry A. Wallace

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William Averell Harriman (November 15, 1891 - July 26, 1986) was an American Democratic Party politician, businessman, and diplomat. He was the son of railroad baron E. H. Harriman. He served as Secretary of Commerce under President Harry S. 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. 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 various positions in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.

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Unnecessary attack - Lawrence Journal World Tweet this news
Lawrence Journal World--By 1919, he was enlisted by railroad heir -W-. -Averell Harriman- to be president of Wall Street-based WA Harriman, which invested in oil, shipping, ... - Date : Thu, 12 Aug 2010 08:10:59 GMT+00:00
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Richmond Times Dispatch--He decoded "eyes only" messages from President Harry S. Truman to Secretary of Commerce -W-. -Averell Harriman- that Mr. Cox's personal notes said outlined ... - Date : Sat, 03 Jul 2010 20:27:48 GMT+00:00
Governor Paterson Approves Merger Of Tax And Finance And Real Property ... - Hamptons.com Tweet this news
Hamptons.com--Beginning June 28 the Office of Real Property Tax Services will move to the -W-. -Averell Harriman- State Office Campus in Albany, from its current location at ... - Date : Tue, 29 Jun 2010 05:43:44 GMT+00:00
NY Tax, Real Property Agencies Merge - North Country Gazette Tweet this news
North Country Gazette--Beginning June 28, the Office of Real Property Tax Services will move to the -W-. -Averell Harriman- State Office Campus in Albany, from its current location at ... - Date : Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:10:16 GMT+00:00
Queen Elizabeth II to visit NYC, pay tribute to 9/11 victims and address UN - SILive.com Tweet this news
SILive.com---W-. -Averell Harriman-, Queen Elizabeth II rides in a car along the Stapleton waterfront during her 1957 visit to Staten Island. Trinity Lutheran Church is ... - Date : Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:58:37 GMT+00:00
La excepción familiar - La Vanguardia Tweet this news
La Vanguardia---...- ochenta y un años y entre cuyos miembros destacaron el presidente William Taft, Henry-Luce (fundador de Time-Life)y el diplomático -Averell Harriman-. ...--- - Date : Mon, 28 Jun 2010 01:38:54 GMT+00:00
Governor Paterson Approves Merger Of Tax And Finance And Real Property ... - ReadMedia (press release) Tweet this news
ReadMedia (press release)--Beginning June 28, 2010, the Office of Real Property Tax Services will move to the -W-. -Averell Harriman- State Office Campus in Albany, from its current ... - Date : Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:04:47 GMT+00:00
El Rushbo to Begin Taping Golf Channel's "The Haney Project" - RushLimbaugh.com (subscription) Tweet this news
RushLimbaugh.com (subscription)---W-. -Averell Harriman-. The first time I ever heard of Averell Harriman was when LBJ appointed him to do something back in the '60s. ... - Date : Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:06:00 GMT+00:00
Where US Helped to Rebuild Europe, Past Glories Are Restored - New York Times Tweet this news
New York Times--In 1947 the building's owners, the Rothschild family, rented it to the State Department, which then installed a delegation headed by -W-. -Averell Harriman-, ... - Date : Tue, 25 May 2010 01:27:43 GMT+00:00
Le Premier ministre récompensé - Courrier International Tweet this news
Courrier International--Le Premier ministre Morgan Tsvangirai, qui séjourne aux Etats-Unis, a reçu, le 11 mai, le -W-. -Averell Harriman- Democracy Award, rapporte le quotidien de ... - Date : Wed, 12 May 2010 13:27:44 GMT+00:00

Political offices
Preceded by
Thomas E. Dewey
Governor of New York
1955 - 1958
Succeeded by
Nelson Rockefeller
Government offices
Preceded by
Walter P. McConaughy
Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs
December 4, 1961 - April 3, 1963
Succeeded by
Roger Hilsman
Awards
Preceded by
Robert Daniel Murphy
Sylvanus Thayer Award recipient
1975
Succeeded by
Gordon Gray


United States Secretaries of Commerce

Secretaries of Commerce & LaborCortelyou * Metcalf * Straus * Nagel
Secretaries of CommerceRedfield * Alexander * Hoover * Whiting * Lamont * Chapin * Roper * Hopkins * Jones * Wallace * Harriman * Sawyer * Weeks * Strauss * Mueller * Hodges * Connor * Trowbridge * Smith * Stans * Peterson * Dent * Morton * Richardson * Kreps * Klutznick * Baldrige * Verity * Mosbacher * Franklin * Brown * Kantor * Daley * Mineta * Evans * Gutierrez * Locke

Cabinet of President Harry S. Truman (1945 �1953)

Vice PresidentNone (1945 �1949) * Alben W. Barkley (1949 �1953)
Secretary of StateEdward Stettinius, Jr. (1945) * James F. Byrnes (1945 �1947) * George C. Marshall (1947 �1949) * Dean Acheson (1949 �1953)
Secretary of WarHenry L. Stimson (1945) * Robert P. Patterson (1945 �1947) * Kenneth Claiborne Royall (1947)
Secretary of DefenseJames Forrestal (1947 �1949) * Louis A. Johnson (1949 �1950) * George C. Marshall (1950 �1951) * Robert A. Lovett (1951 �1953)
Secretary of the TreasuryHenry Morgenthau, Jr. (1945) * Fred M. Vinson (1945 �1946) * John W. Snyder (1946 �1953)
Attorney GeneralFrancis Biddle (1945) * Tom C. Clark (1945 �1949) * J. Howard McGrath (1949 �1952) * James P. McGranery (1952 �1953)
Postmaster GeneralFrank C. Walker (1945) * Robert E. Hannegan (1945 �1947) * Jesse M. Donaldson (1947 �1953)
Secretary of the NavyJames Forrestal (1945 �1947)
Secretary of the InteriorHarold L. Ickes (1945 �1946) * Julius A. Krug (1946 �1949) * Oscar L. Chapman (1949 �1953)
Secretary of the AgricultureClaude R. Wickard (1945) * Clinton P. Anderson (1945 �1948) * Charles F. Brannan (1948 �1953)
Secretary of CommerceHenry A. Wallace (1945 �1946) * W. Averell Harriman (1946 �1948) * Charles W. Sawyer (1948 �1953)
Secretary of LaborFrances Perkins (1945) * Lewis B. Schwellenbach (1945 �1948) * Maurice J. Tobin (1948 �1953)

Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs of the United States of America

Robert Daniel Murphy * Livingston T. Merchant * George C. McGhee * W. Averell Harriman * Eugene V. Rostow * U. Alexis Johnson * William J. Porter * Joseph J. Sisco * Philip Habib * David D. Newsom * Walter John Stoessel, Jr. * Lawrence Eagleburger * Michael Armacost * Robert M. Kimmitt * Arnold Kanter * Peter Tarnoff * Thomas R. Pickering * Marc Grossman * R. Nicholas Burns * William Joseph Burns

Governors of New York

G. Clinton * Jay * G. Clinton * Lewis * Tompkins * Tayler* * D. Clinton * Yates * D. Clinton * Pitcher * Van Buren * Throop * Marcy * Seward * Bouck * Wright * Young * Fish * Hunt * Seymour * Clark * King * Morgan * Seymour * Fenton * Hoffman * J. Adams Dix * Tilden * Robinson * Cornell * Cleveland * Hill * Flower * Morton * Black * T. Roosevelt * Odell * Higgins * Hughes * White * J. Alden Dix * Sulzer * Glynn * Whitman * Smith * Miller * Smith * F. Roosevelt * Lehman * Poletti * Dewey * Harriman * Rockefeller * Wilson * Carey * Cuomo * Pataki * Spitzer * Paterson
(*) denotes Acting

US United States Ambassadors to the United Kingdom UK

Ministers Plenipotentiary to
the Court of St. James's
1785 �1811
John Adams 1785 �1788 * Thomas Pinckney 1792 �1796 * Rufus King 1796 �1803 * James Monroe 1803 �1807 * William Pinkney 1808 �1811 * Jonathan Russell (chargé d'affaires) 1811 �1812
Envoys Extraordinary and
Ministers Plenipotentiary to
the Court of St. James's
1815 �1893
John Quincy Adams 1815 �1817 * Richard Rush 1818 �1825 * Rufus King 1825 �1826 * Albert Gallatin 1826 �1827 * James Barbour 1828 �1829 * Louis McLane 1829 �1831 * Martin Van Buren 1831 �1832 * Aaron Vail (chargé d'affaires) 1832 �1836 * Andrew Stevenson 1836 �1841 * Edward Everett 1841 �1845 * Louis McLane 1845 �1846 * George Bancroft 1846 �1849 * Abbott Lawrence 1849 �1852 * Joseph R. Ingersoll 1852 �1853 * James Buchanan 1853 �1856 * George M. Dallas 1856 �1861 * Charles Adams, Sr. 1861 �1868 * Reverdy Johnson 1868 �1869 * John Lothrop Motley 1869 �1870 * Robert C. Schenck 1871 �1876 * Edwards Pierrepont 1876 �1877 * John Welsh 1877 �1879 * James Russell Lowell 1880 �1885 * Edward J. Phelps 1885 �1889 * Robert Todd Lincoln 1889 �1893
Ambassadors Extraordinary
and Plenipotentiary to
the Court of St. James's
1893 �present
Thomas F. Bayard, Sr. 1893 �1897 * John Hay 1897 �1898 * Joseph Choate 1899 �1905 * Whitelaw Reid 1905 �1912 * Walter Page 1913-1918 * John W. Davis 1918 �1921 * George Harvey 1921 �1923 * Frank B. Kellogg 1924 �1925 * Alanson B. Houghton 1925 �1929 * Charles G. Dawes 1929 �1931 * Andrew W. Mellon 1932 �1933 * Robert Bingham 1933 �1937 * Joseph P. Kennedy 1938 �1940 * John G. Winant 1941 �1946 * W. Averell Harriman 1946 * Lewis W. Douglas 1947 �1950 * Walter S. Gifford 1950 �1953 * Winthrop W. Aldrich 1953 �1957 * John Hay Whitney 1957 �1961 * David K. E. Bruce 1961 �1969 * Walter H. Annenberg 1969 �1974 * Elliot L. Richardson 1975 �1976 * Anne Armstrong 1976 �1977 * Kingman Brewster, Jr. 1977 �1981 * John J. Louis, Jr. 1981 �1983 * Charles H. Price II 1983 �1989 * Henry E. Catto, Jr. 1989 �1991 * Raymond G. H. Seitz 1991 �1994 * William J. Crowe 1994 �1997 * Philip Lader 1997 �2001 * William Stamps Farish III 2001 �2004 * Robert H. Tuttle 2005 �2009 * Louis Susman 2009 �

United States presidential election, 1956

Democratic Party1956 Democratic National Convention
CandidatesBattle * Chandler * Davis * Harriman * Johnson * Kefauver * Lausche * Stevenson * Timmerman
VP CandidatesBrown * Clement * Collins * Gore * Hodges * Humphrey * Johnson * Kefauver * Kennedy * Symington * Wagner
Republican Party1956 Republican National Convention
CandidatesEisenhower
VP CandidatesNixon

Buddhist crisis

EventsHue Vesak shootings * Hue chemical attacks * Self-immolation of Thich Quang Duc * Double Seven Day scuffle * Xa Loi Pagoda raids * 1963 South Vietnamese coup (reaction) * Arrest and assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem
PolicyJoint Communique * Cable 243 * Krulak Mendenhall mission * McNamara Taylor mission
Political or
religious figures
Ngo Dinh Diem * Ngo Dinh Nhu * Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu * Ngo Dinh Can * Ngô Đình Thục * Nguyen Ngoc Tho * Nguyen Dinh Thuan * Bui Van Luong * Vu Van Mau * Buu Hoi * Tran Van Chuong * Thich Tri Quang * Thich Quang Duc * Thich Tinh Khiet * Thich Thien Hoa * Frederick Nolting * Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. * Maxwell D. Taylor * Robert McNamara * Victor H. Krulak * Joseph Mendenhall * William Trueheart * Roger Hilsman * Averell Harriman * Michael Forrestal * John F. Kennedy
Military figuresDuong Van Minh * Tran Van Don * Ton That Dinh * Le Van Kim * Nguyen Van Thieu * Pham Ngoc Thao * Tran Kim Tuyen * Tran Thien Khiem * Nguyen Huu Co * Huynh Van Cao * Do Mau * Do Cao Tri * Nguyen Khanh * Nguyen Van Nhung * Le Quang Tung * ARVN Special Forces * Lucien Conein
JournalistsDavid Halberstam * Malcolm Browne * Peter Arnett * Neil Sheehan * Marguerite Higgins



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