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found: Biog. dir. of the United States Congress, accessed Apr. 16, 2012:(Scranton, William Warren, a Representative from Pennsylvania; b. Madison, New Haven County, Conn., July 19, 1917; attended the Hotchkiss school; B.A., Yale University, New Haven, Conn., 1939; LL.B., Yale Law School, New Haven, Conn., 1946; U.S. Army Air Corps, pilot with overseas service in Africa, the Middle East, and South America, 1941-1945; associated with the International Textbook Co., and Haddon Craftsman, Inc., 1947-1952, rising to position of vice president; president of the Scranton-Lackawanna Trust Co., 1954-1956; chairman of the board of Northeastern Pennsylvania Broadcasting, Inc., 1953-1959; special assistant to Secretary of State Christian A. Herter, 1959 and 1960; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-seventh Congress (Jan. 3, 1961-Jan. 3, 1963); was not a candidate for renomination in 1962, but was a successful candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania; Governor of Pennsylvania, 1963-1967; candidate for Republican presidential nomination in 1964; delegate and chairman of Judiciary Committee, Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention, 1967-1968; vice chairman, President's Commission on insurance for Riot-torn Areas, 1967; United States Ambassador, 1969; member, President's Advisory Committee on Arms Limitation and Disarmament; representative of United States to United Nations, Mar. 15, 1976, to Jan. 19, 1977; resident of Dalton, Pa.)

found: New York times (online), viewed July 30, 2013(in obituary published July 29: William W. Scranton; b. William Warren Scranton, July 19, 1917, Madison, Conn.; d. Sunday [July 28, 2013], Montecito, Calif., aged 96; moderate Republican governor of Pennsylvania from 1963 to 1967, who lost a run for his party's presidential nomination in 1964 and later served as the United States representative to the United Nations)