- William S. Mailliard
William S. Mailliard (
June 10 ,1917 –June 10 ,1992 ) was a member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromCalifornia . He was born inBelvedere, California ; attended elementary and secondary schools in theSan Francisco Bay Area , and the Taft School,Watertown, Connecticut , 1933–1935. He graduated fromYale University in 1939; engaged in the banking business with American Trust Co., San Francisco, Calif., in 1940 and 1941;Served as assistant naval attaché in the United States Embassy in London in 1939 and 1940; with Bureau of Naval Personnel, Washington, D.C., in 1941 and 1942; attended the
Naval War College in 1942; was assigned to duty on staff ofSeventh Amphibious Force as flag lieutenant and aide to Vice Adm. D.E. Barbey in 1943 and released to inactive duty in March 1946 as a lieutenant commander; promoted to commander in 1950 and to rear admiral in 1965 in the Naval Reserve.He resumed his banking career in 1946 and 1947 and was assistant to the director of the
California Youth Authority in 1947 and 1948. An unsuccessful Republican candidate for election in 1948 to the 81st Congress and secretary to Gov.Earl Warren 1948–1951. Executive assistant to the director of theCalifornia Academy of Sciences in 1951 and 1952 and elected as a Republican to the 83rd and to the ten succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1953, until his resignation March 5, 1974.He was a permanent Representative of the United States to the
Organization of American States with the rank of Ambassador, March 7, 1974, to February 1, 1977 and nominated by PresidentGerald R. Ford and confirmed by theUnited States Senate on December 10, 1975, to be a member of the Board of Directors of the Inter-American Foundation and was a resident of San Francisco, Calif., until his death.External links
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