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W. Averell Harriman
Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
In office April 4, 1963 – March 17, 1965
President	John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson
Preceded by	George C. McGhee
Succeeded by	Eugene V. Rostow
Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
In office December 4, 1961 – April 4, 1963
President	John F. Kennedy
Preceded by	Walter P. McConaughy
Succeeded by	Roger Hilsman
48th Governor of New York
In office January 1, 1955 – December 31, 1958
Lieutenant	George DeLuca
Preceded by	Thomas E. Dewey
Succeeded by	Nelson Rockefeller
Director of the Mutual Security Agency
In office October 31, 1951 – January 20, 1953
President	Harry S. Truman
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Harold Stassen
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 Sawyer
United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom
In office April 30, 1946 – October 1, 1946
President	Harry S. Truman
Preceded by	John Winant
Succeeded by	Lewis Douglas
United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union
In office October 23, 1943 – January 24, 1946
President	Franklin D. Roosevelt Harry S. Truman
Preceded by	William Standley
Succeeded by	Walter Bedell Smith
Personal details
Born	William Averell Harriman (1891-11-15)November 15, 1891 New York City, U.S.
Died	July 26, 1986(1986-07-26) (aged 94) Yorktown Heights, New York, U.S.
Political party	Republican (Before 1928) Democratic (1928–1986)
Spouse(s)	Kitty Lanier Lawrance ​ ​ (m. 2021; div. 2006)​ Marie Norton Whitney ​ ​ (m. 2021; died 1970)​ Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward ​ ​ (m. 1971)​
Children	2
Parents	E. H. Harriman (father) Mary Williamson Averell (mother)
Relatives	Mary Harriman Rumsey (sister) E. Roland Harriman (brother)
Education	Yale University (BA)
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William Averell Harriman (November 15, 1891 – July 26, 1986), better known as Averell Harriman, was an American Democratic politician, businessman, and diplomat. He was the Secretary of Commerce under President Harry S. Truman, and later as the 48th Governor of New York. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1952 and 1956.^[1]

• W. Averell Harriman. America and Russia in a changing world: A half century of personal observation (1971)
• W. Averell Harriman. Public papers of Averell Harriman, fifty-second governor of the state of New York, 1955–1959 (1960)
• Harriman, W. Averell and Abel, Elie. Special Envoy to Churchill and Stalin, 1941–1946. (1975). 595 pp.

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