Scranton, William Warren (1917-2013), an American politician, was governor of Pennsylvania from 1963 to 1967. In 1964, he became a last-minute candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent the nomination of conservative Senator Barry M. Goldwater.
Scranton was born on July 19, 1917, in Madison, Connecticut. He studied law at Yale and served as an Army flier in World War II. After the war ended in 1945, he built a successful business career and worked to develop Scranton, Pennsylvania. The city is named for his family. Scranton served in the United States Department of State in 1959 and 1960 and in the House of Representatives from 1961 to 1963. In 1970, he was named to head the President’s Commission on Campus Unrest. It explored the causes and consequences of disturbances at U.S. colleges and universities. From 1976 to 1977, Scranton was U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. He died on July 28, 2013.
