William Remington
| William Remington | |
|---|---|
| Born |
William Walter Remington October 25, 1917 New York City |
| Died | November 24, 1954 (aged 37) Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary Lewisburg, Pennsylvania |
| Cause of death | Murder |
| Education |
Dartmouth College (1939) Columbia University (1940) |
| Employer |
Tennessee Valley Authority (1936-1937) National Resources Planning Board (1940-1941) Council of Economic Advisers (1947-1948) |
| Salary | $2,000 (1940) $10,305 (1948) |
| Spouse(s) | Ann Moos Jane Alben |
| Parent(s) | Lillian Maude Sutherland (1888-?) Frederick C. Remington (1870-1956) |
William Walter Remington (October 25, 1917 – November 24, 1954) was an economist employed in various federal government positions until his career was interrupted by accusations of espionage made by the Soviet spy and defector Elizabeth Bentley. He was convicted of perjury in connection with these charges in 1953, and murdered in prison in 1954. His death has been cited as one of the few murders attributable to McCarthyism.
He was born in New York City and raised in Ridgewood, in Bergen County, New Jersey, by Lillian Maude Sutherland (1888-?) and Frederick C. Remington (1870–1956). His father worked for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.; his mother as an art teacher in New York. Remington was admitted to Dartmouth College at age 16, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude in 1939, and earned a Master's degree from Columbia University in 1940. Coming from a branch of the Remington family of Illion, New York, Remington's parents were demanding and he developed a somewhat unconventional and flamboyant personality. From an early age, he was drawn to radical leftist politics, and declared to his friends that he was a Communist when he was 15. In college, he became active with members of the Young Communist League, and later the Communist Party of the United States. In testimony, Remington stated that while he was a Republican when he entered college, he "moved left quite rapidly" and became a radical but was never a Communist Party or Young Communist League member at Dartmouth. Whether or not he ever officially joined the party later became a point of contention in his legal battles.
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