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SCRANTON, William Warren, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Madison, New Haven County, Conn.,
July 19, 1917; attended the Hotchkiss school; B.A., Yale University, New Haven, Conn., 1939;
LL.B., Yale Law School, New Haven, Conn., 1946; United States Army Air Corps, pilot with
overseas service in Africa, the Middle East, and South America, 1941-1945; associated with the
International Textbook Co., and Haddon Craftsman, Inc., 1947-1952, rising to position of vice
president; president of the Scranton-Lackawanna Trust Co., 1954-1956; chairman of the board of
Northeastern Pennsylvania Broadcasting, Inc., 1953-1959; special assistant to Secretary of State
Christian A. Herter, 1959 and 1960; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-seventh Congress (January
3, 1961-January 3, 1963); was not a candidate for renomination in 1962, but was a successful
candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania; Governor of Pennsylvania, 1963-1967; candidate for
Republican presidential nomination in 1964; delegate and chairman of Judiciary Committee,
Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention, 1967-1968; vice chairman, Presidents Commission on
insurance for Riot-torn Areas, 1967; United States Ambassador, 1969; member, Presidents
Advisory Committee on Arms Limitation and Disarmament; Representative of the United States to the
United Nations, March 15, 1976, to January 19, 1977; is a resident of Dalton, Pa.
BibliographyWolf, George D. William Warren Scranton:
Pennsylvania Statesman. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1981.
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