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    William Warren Scranton (July 19, 1917 – July 28, 2013) was an American Republican Party politician and diplomat. Scranton served as the 38th governor...
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    Governor William Scranton, and a member of the wealthy and politically influential Scranton family, the founders of Scranton, Pennsylvania. Scranton was born...
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    Scranton is a city in and the county seat of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States. With a population of 76,328 as of the 2020 U.S. census, Scranton...
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  • William Scranton (1917–2013) was an American politician who served as Governor of Pennsylvania 1963 to 1967 William Scranton may also refer to: William...
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  • Scranton is a city in Pennsylvania, United States. Scranton may also refer to: Lake Scranton, a reservoir next to Scranton, Pennsylvania Scranton, Arkansas...
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  • 1859–1861. Joseph A. Scranton (1838–1908), United States Congressman, 1881–1887, 1889–1891 and 1893–1897. William Walker Scranton (1844–1916), president...
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    liberal New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller and Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton. Johnson championed a series of anti-poverty programs, collectively...
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    William Walker Scranton (April 4, 1844 – December 3, 1916) was an American businessman based in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He became president and manager...
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    Goldwater and Rockefeller. Despite lobbying from liberal Republicans, William Scranton and George Romney both legally moved to remove themselves from consideration...
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  • supplies the city of Scranton, Pennsylvania with drinking water. This reservoir, which was formed by a dam built by William Walker Scranton in 1898, was called...
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    William Benton Scranton (May 29, 1856 – March 23, 1922) was an American medical doctor and Methodist missionary in Korea. William B. Scranton was born...
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  • Pennsylvania from 1963 to 1967 during the administration of her husband, William Scranton, the 38th Governor of Pennsylvania and 1964 U.S. presidential candidate...
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    Arizona won the nomination, easily turning away Pennsylvania governor William Scranton and others more favorable to the party establishment. At the 1972 Republican...
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  • such as Nelson Rockefeller and with moderate conservatives such as William Scranton among others, Goldwater won the party's nomination for president. From...
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    anti-Goldwater organization called for the nomination of Governor William Scranton of Pennsylvania, but the effort failed. Although former President Dwight...
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    cousin Joseph H. Scranton, an early investor who had moved to this city, became president and the cousin's son, William Walker Scranton, became general...
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  • which became known as the Scranton Commission after its chairman, former Pennsylvania governor William Scranton. Scranton was asked to study the dissent...
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  • University of Scranton is a private Jesuit university in Scranton, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1888 by William O'Hara, the first Bishop of Scranton, as St...
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    mayor of Scranton is the chief executive of the government of Scranton, Pennsylvania, as stipulated by the Charter of the City of Scranton. The current...
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    Pennsylvania Governor Richard L. Thornburgh and Lieutenant Governor William Scranton III, to whom Thornburgh assigned responsibility for collecting and...
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    were indicted on criminal charges. Thornburgh and Scranton were reelected in 1982. However, Scranton failed to win the governorship on his own in 1986...
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    industrialist William Walker Scranton (1844-1916) and Katherine Maria (Smith) Scranton (1851-1935), "he grew up in downtown Scranton in a huge turreted...
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    Marion M. (Scranton) Isaacs (1908–1992), Katherine (Scranton) Rozendaal (1910–2002), Sara (Scranton) Linen (1913–1997), and William Warren Scranton (1917–2013)...
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  • In 1968, a site in Clarks Summit was found with the help of Gov. William Scranton. The school received its accreditation from the Association for Biblical...
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    the Republican nomination on the first ballot, defeating Governor William Scranton of Pennsylvania and Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York. The Democratic...
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    Joseph Augustine Scranton (July 26, 1838 – October 12, 1908) was a Republican politician who represented Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives...
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    metropolitan area, it is known as the Scranton–Wilkes-Barre metropolitan area, after its principal cities, Scranton and Wilkes-Barre. With a population...
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  • The Scranton Times-Tribune is a morning newspaper serving the Scranton, Pennsylvania, area. Until August 2023, it was the flagship title of Times-Shamrock...
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    needed] Tadashi Yamamoto, Japan Center for International Exchange William Scranton, former governor of Pennsylvania. [citation needed] Other founding...
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    discussed the dog in a speech on October 9, 1974, in a tribute to William Scranton in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: This puppy has really taken over the...
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