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Legion of Honour. Amory Houghton (July 27, 1899 – February 21, 1981) [1] served as United States Ambassador to France from 1957 to 1961 [2] and as national president of the Boy Scouts of America. He was chairman of the board of Corning Glass Works (1941–1961). [3] In 1959 he was elected as an honorary member of the New York Society of the ...
Amo Houghton. Amory Houghton Jr. (August 7, 1926 – March 4, 2020) was an American Republican politician from the U.S. state of New York. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives and was a member of one of upstate New York's most prominent business and political families, the Houghtons .
Mar 5, 2020 · Amory Houghton Jr. was born in Corning on Aug. 7, 1926. Amory Sr. would become president and chairman of Corning Glass Works and later ambassador to France under President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Mr.
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CORNING, N.Y. (AP) — Amory Houghton Jr., who led his family’s glass company in upstate New York and later spent nearly two decades in Congress as a Republican with a reputation for breaking with his party, died Wednesday. He was 93. Houghton, who was known as simply “Amo,” was first elected at age 60, after spending nearly two decades ...
Mar 7, 2020 · AMORY HOUGHTON Obituary. HOUGHTON--Amory, Jr., of Corning, known to all as Amo, died peacefully at his home on March 4th. He was 93. A PFC in the US Marine Corps during the last year of WWII, he ...
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Mar 6, 2020 · HOUGHTON Amory Houghton, Jr. Led Corning Glass Works for nearly twenty years and later served nine terms as a member of Congress, died peacefully of natural causes on March 4,2020 at his home in Corni
Sep 20, 2022 · The public memorial was finally held more than two years after Houghton's death, the result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Houghton, who led Corning Glass Works (now Corning Inc.) for nearly 20 years and later served nine terms as a member of Congress, died March 4, 2020, at the age of 93. "Amo was a lot of things to a lot of people,” said Robert ...
