William Matson Roth
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Roth (far right) alongside Orville Freeman, Alexander Trowbridge and James Reynolds after the Kennedy Round at the United States Chamber of Commerce, 1967
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| United States Trade Representative | |
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In office March 24, 1967 – January 20, 1969 |
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| President | Lyndon Johnson |
| Preceded by | Christian Herter |
| Succeeded by | Carl Gilbert |
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William Matson Roth September 3, 1916 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Died | May 29, 2014 (aged 97) Petaluma, California, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Joan Osborn |
| Children | 3 |
William Matson Roth (September 3, 1916 – May 29, 2014) was a shipping executive, special ambassador for trade, member of the ACLU executive committee, and Regent for the University of California. He is credited with the preservation of Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco.
He was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Lurline Matson Roth and William Philip Roth. His maternal grandfather was William Matson, the founder of the Matson Navigation Company.
In 1962, Roth and his mother purchased Ghirardelli Square in fear that it would be torn down and replaced with condominiums. They hired a landscape architectural firm to convert the factory with its historic brick structure into a retail complex. It was considered to be the first major adaptive re-use project in the United States. Ghirardelli Square was later listed on the National Register of Historical Places to preserve for future generations.
In 1966, he was targeted along with Clark Kerr and Elinor Raas Heller by a fellow Regent, Edwin Pauley, for his alleged "ultra-liberal" views.Ronald Reagan made the Free Speech Movement and Opposition to the Vietnam War on the Berkeley campus one of his major campaign issues.
At the first Regents' meeting after Reagan's election, Kerr was fired, with all the governor's new appointees voting for termination. Roth remained a member of the Regents' Board for many years, and was deliberately late for Reagan's last meeting in 1974, to avoid voting on a resolution of approval for the outgoing governor.
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