William S. Mailliard

William S. Mailliard (1973)

William Somers Mailliard (born June 10, 1917 in Belvedere , California , †  June 10, 1992 in San Francisco , California) was an American politician . Between 1953 and 1974 he represented the state of California in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Mailliard attended the public schools in the San Francisco Bay Area and then from 1933 to 1935, the Taft School in Watertown ( Connecticut ). He then studied until 1939 at Yale University . He was then in 1939 in the office of the naval attaché at the US Embassy in London . Between 1940 and 1941 he worked for the American Trust Co., a banking company in San Francisco. During World War II , Mailliard served in various roles in the US Navy . First he worked in the Naval Personnel Office in Washington, DC He then graduated from Naval War College in 1942 , before he came into active service. Until 1946 Mailliard remained as an officer in active service in the Navy. He then belonged to their reserve, in which he made it to rear admiral until 1965 . He returned to banking in 1946 and 1947, and from 1947 to 1948 he worked for the California Youth Authority .

At the same time Mailliard began a political career as a member of the Republican Party . In 1948 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress . Between 1948 and 1951 he was on the staff of Governor Earl Warren . He then worked until 1952 as a department director for the California Academy of Sciences . In the congressional elections of 1952 Mailliard was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the fourth constituency of California, where he succeeded Franck R. Havenner on January 3, 1953 . After ten re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his resignation on March 5, 1974. Since 1963 he represented there as the successor to John F. Baldwin the sixth district of his state. During this period, the Cold War , the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War took place . At the time of his resignation, the Watergate affair shook political life in the United States.

Mailliards resignation came after his appointment as permanent representative with the rank of ambassador to the Organization of American States . He held this position as successor to Joseph J. Jova between 1974 and 1977. In 1975 he became a board member of the Inter-American Foundation . William Mailliard spent the last years of his life in San Francisco, where he died on June 10, 1992, his 75th birthday.

Web links

• William S. Mailliard in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William S. Mailliard in the database of Find a Grave (English)