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William Averell Harriman (November 15, 1891 – July 26, 1986)
48th Governor of New York
In office
January 1, 1955 – December 31, 1958
Lieutenant George De Luca
Preceded by Thomas E. Dewey
Succeeded by Nelson A. Rockefeller

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United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union
In office
23 October 1943 – 24 January 1946
President Harry S. Truman
Preceded by William H. Standley
Succeeded by Walter Bedell Smith

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United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom
In office
1946 – 1946
Preceded by John G. Winant
Succeeded by Lewis W. Douglas

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11th United States Secretary of Commerce
In office
October 7, 1946 – April 22, 1948
President Harry S. Truman
Preceded by Henry A. Wallace
Succeeded by Charles W. Sawyer

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Born November 15, 1891(1891-11-15)
New York City, New York
Died July 26, 1986 (aged 94)
Yorktown Heights, New York
Political party Democratic
Spouse Kitty Lanier Lawrence (divorced)
Marie Norton Whitney (her death)
Pamela Beryl Digby Churchill Hayward
William Averell Harriman (November 15, 1891 – July 26, 1986) was an American Democratic Party 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 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. 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 various positions in Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Among his wives were Marie Norton Whitney, who left her husband Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney to marry him, and Pamela Harriman, former wife of Winston Churchill's son Randolph

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Business affairs
Using money from his father, in 1922 he established W.A. Harriman & Co, a banking business. In 1927 his brother E. Roland Harriman joined the business and the name was changed to Harriman Brothers & Company. In 1931 they merged with Brown Bros. & Co. to create the highly successful Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.. Notable employees included George Herbert Walker, and his son-in-law Prescott Bush (father of U.S. president George H. W. Bush).

Harriman's main properties included: Brown Brothers & Harriman & Co; Union Pacific Railroad; Merchant Shipping Corporation; and various venture capital investments including the Polaroid Corporation. Harriman's associated properties included: the Southern Pacific Railroad (including the Central Pacific Railroad), Illinois Central Railroad; Wells Fargo & Co.; the Pacific Mail Steamship Co.; American Shipping & Commerce (HAPAG), the American Hawaiian Steamship Co., United American Lines Co.; the Guarantee Trust Company and the Union Banking Corporation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Averell_Harriman