Harriman was born in New York City, son of Edward Henry Harriman and Mary Williamson Averell, brother of E. Roland Harriman. He first married Kitty Lanier Lawrence, she died in 1936 and he married again to Pamela Beryl Digby. He served as the U.S. Ambassador to Soviet Union between 1943 and 1946 and the Ambassador to Britain in 1946. He was later appointed the U.S. Secretary of Commerce under PresidentHarry Truman to replace Henry A. Wallace, a critic of Truman's foreign policies. Harriman served between 1946 and 1948. He was sent to Tehran in July 1951 to mediate between Persia and Britain in the wake of the Persian nationalization of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (http://www.bibliothecapersica.com/articles/v12f1/v12f1011.html).
William Averell Harriman (center) with Winston Churchill (on the right)
He was appointed Ambassador at Large in the Kennedy administration, a position he held until November 1961. He was then appointed Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs. He remained in that position until April 1963, when he became Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. He continued in that position in the Lyndon Johnson administration, until March 1965 when he again became Ambassador at Large, a position he would hold for the remainder of Johnson's presidency. Harriman was the chief U.S. negotiator at the Paris peace talks on Vietnam.
Roland Harriman, also known as Edward Roland Noel Harriman, (born December 24, 1895 in New York City - died February 16, 1978 in Arden, New York), was a financier and philanthropist.
The youngest of five surviving children of Mary Williamson Averell and Edward Henry Harriman, a financier and executive of the Union Pacific Railroad and the Southern Pacific Railroad.
Harriman was educated at Groton, from which he graduated in 1913, and Yale University (B.A., 1917), where he was a friend and classmate of Prescott Bush.
AverellHarriman was born in New York City, the son of railroad baron Edward Henry Harriman and Mary Williamson Averell, and brother to E.
Harriman served President Franklin Roosevelt as special envoy to Europe, and was present at the meeting between Winston Churchill and the US president at Placentia Bay in August of 1941.
Harriman was a candidate for the Democratic Presidential Nomination in 1952, and again in 1956 when he was endorsed by Harry S. Truman but lost to Adlai Stevenson.
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