W. Averell Harriman
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His Excellency W. Averell Harriman |
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| 48th Governor of New York | |
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In office January 1, 1955 – December 31, 1958 |
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| Lieutenant | George DeLuca |
| Preceded by | Thomas E. Dewey |
| Succeeded by | Nelson A. Rockefeller |
| 11th United States Secretary of Commerce | |
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In office October 7, 1946 – April 22, 1948 |
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| President | Harry S. Truman |
| Preceded by | Henry A. Wallace |
| Succeeded by | Charles Sawyer |
| United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom | |
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In office April 30, 1946 – October 1, 1946 |
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| Monarch | George VI |
| President | Harry S. Truman |
| Prime Minister | Clement Attlee |
| Preceded by | John G. Winant |
| Succeeded by | Lewis W. Douglas |
| United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union | |
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In office October 23, 1943 – January 24, 1946 |
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| President | |
| Preceded by | William H. Standley |
| Succeeded by | Walter Bedell Smith |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
William Averell Harriman November 15, 1891 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | July 26, 1986 (aged 94) Yorktown Heights, New York, U.S. |
| Resting place | Arden Farm Graveyard in Arden, New York, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic (1928–86) |
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Republican (Before 1928) |
| Spouse(s) |
Kitty Lanier Lawrance (m. 1915; div. 1929) Marie Norton Whitney (m. 1930; her death 1970) Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward (m. 1971; his death 1986) |
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| Alma mater | Yale University |
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William Averell Harriman (November 15, 1891 – July 26, 1986) was an American Democratic 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 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 Kennedy and Johnson Administrations. He was a core member of the group of foreign policy elders known as "The Wise Men".
Better known as Averell Harriman, he was born in New York City, the son of railroad baron Edward Henry Harriman and Mary Williamson Averell. He was the brother of E. Roland Harriman and Mary Harriman Rumsey. Harriman was a close friend of Hall Roosevelt, the brother of Eleanor Roosevelt.
During the summer of 1899, Harriman's father organized the Harriman Alaska Expedition, a philanthropic-scientific survey of coastal Alaska and Russia that attracted 25 of the leading scientific, naturalist, and artist luminaries of the day, including John Muir, John Burroughs, George Bird Grinnell, C. Hart Merriam, Grove Karl Gilbert, and Edward Curtis, along with 100 family members and staff, aboard the steamship George Elder. Young Harriman would have his first introduction to Russia, a nation on which he would spend a significant amount of attention in his later life in public service.
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