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    W. Averell Harriman ()

    Averell Harriman was born into a prominent New York City family and educated at Groton and Yale University. Upon graduation, Harriman worked in his father's Union Pacific Railroad business. During World War inom, he went into shipbuilding and turned his Merchant's Shipbuilding Corporation into one of the world's largest merchant fleets when he merged with the Hamburg-American Line. In he left shipping and, after several failed business ventures in Europe and the Soviet Union, he was elected chairman of the Union Pacific Railroad, the company his father built. In he formed an investment firm with his brother, which, when it joined with Brown Brothers, became Brown Brothers Harriman. Harriman became interested in politics during Franklin D. Roosevelt's ledning and the president appointed him to replace General Hugh Johnson as administrator of the National Recovery Administration (NRA), a New Deal agency he ran until With war threatening in europe, Harriman

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    W. Averell Harriman

    American businessman, politician and diplomat (–)

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    In office
    April 4, &#;– March 17,
    PresidentJohn F. Kennedy
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    Preceded byGeorge C. McGhee
    Succeeded byEugene V. Rostow
    In office
    December 4, &#;– April 4,
    PresidentJohn F. Kennedy
    Preceded byWalter P. McConaughy
    Succeeded byRoger Hilsman
    In office
    January 1, &#;– December 31,
    LieutenantGeorge DeLuca
    Preceded byThomas E. Dewey
    Succeeded byNelson Rockefeller
    In office
    October 31, &#;– January 20,
    PresidentHarry S. Truman
    Preceded byPosition established
    Succeeded byHarold Stassen
    In office
    October 7, &#;– April 22,
    PresidentHarry S. Truman
    Preceded byHenry A. Wallace
    Succeeded byCharles Sawyer
    In office
    April 30, &#;– October 1,
    PresidentHarry S. Truman
    Preceded byJohn Winant
    Succeeded byLewis Douglas
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    W. AVERELL HARRIMAN, the fifty-second governor of New York, was born in New York City on November 15, His education was attained at Groton School, and then at Yale University, where he graduated in He established a successful business career, with holdings in the banking, shipbuilding, and railroad industries. Harriman also had a long and distinguished career in public service. In he served as special assistant administrator for the National Recovery Administration; and from to he was a Department of Commerce executive. He served as the U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union from to , as well as serving as the U.S. ambassador to Great Britain in He also served as the U.S. secretary of commerce from to ; was the U.S. representative for the European Recovery Program; and served as the U.S. ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary from to From to he was the special assistant to the president; and from to he served as the director of the Mutual Security Agency. Harriman next sec