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- Williams was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, the son of Isabel Lamson and Harrison Arlington Williams, and graduated from Oberlin College in 1941.
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He engaged in newspaper work in Washington, D.C., and studied at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University until called to active duty as a seaman in the United States Naval Reserve in 1941. He became a naval aviator and was discharged as a lieutenant, junior grade, in 1945.
Nov 20, 2001 · Harrison A. Williams Jr., the Democratic senator from New Jersey who used his considerable power to further the interests of labor and education before being convicted of bribery and...
Harrison Arlington Williams, Jr. (1919-2001) represented New Jersey in the U.S. Senate from 1959 until 1982. Originally from Plainfield, NJ, Williams also served in the House of Representatives as Congressman from New Jersey's Sixth Congressional District (Union County) from 1953 through 1956.
Williams saw the need for a variety of forms of education to ensure that Americans could be lifelong learners, both for personal self-fulfillment and, perhaps more importantly, to retrain themselves to maintain their income-earning ability over time as technology impacted job requirements.
He received his AB from Oberlin College in 1941, and did graduate work at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. He served four years as a Navy pilot during World War II, after which he received a LL.B. degree from Columbia University Law School in 1948.
Nov 20, 2001 · Harrison A. "Pete" Williams Jr., 81, a liberal Democratic senator from New Jersey whose service from 1959 to 1982 brought him the nickname "senator for life," but who resigned rather than...
The Harrison A. Williams, Jr. papers (HAW papers) comprise 959 cubic feet of material. The collection is organized into two sub-groups: Harrison A. Williams, Jr. and Williams Family. The Harrison A Williams, Jr. sub-group comprises by far the bulk of the collection and is further discussed below.
