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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.
- 1941–1945
From this committee, Williams was at the forefront of legislative reforms in the areas of occupational safety, pension protection, access to education, equal employment opportunity, women’s rights, minimum wage, and much more.
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...
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.
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.
In his 1968 book Crossroads U.S.A., U.S. Senator Harrison A. Williams Jr. (D-NJ) argued for a vision of America that encompassed social justice, expanded educational and economic opportunity, environmentalism, and urban improvement as national goals.
Education and the Workforce [15] Financial Services [9] Natural Resources [7] Agriculture [5] Veterans' Affairs [5] House Administration [4] Oversight and Accountability [3]
