William Averell Harriman

(1891-1986) lived in Omaha. Businessman, politician, government official, during 30-year career as diplomat and politician, he served as U.S. Secretary of Commerce from 1946 to 1958, as governor of New York from 1955 to 1959, and in several postwar foreign relations assignments for U.S. Presidents, Truman, Kennedy, and Johnson; appeared on cover of Time, November 14, 1955 and August 2, 1963. Consult Current Biography (1946) 242-245 and Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald, February 11, 1973, p. A-22 and American National Biography, Vol 10 (1999) 146-148.

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