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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyHarrison Arlington WILLIAMS, Jr.
(1919-2001)
Senate Years of Service:
1959-1982Party: DemocratWILLIAMS, Harrison Arlington,
Jr., a Representative and a Senator from New Jersey; born in
Plainfield, Union County, N.J., December 10, 1919; attended the
public schools; graduated from Oberlin College in 1941; engaged in
newspaper work in Washington, D.C., and studied at Georgetown
University Foreign Service School until called to active duty as a
seaman in the United States Naval Reserve in 1941; became a naval
aviator and was discharged as a lieutenant (jg.) in 1945; employed
in the steel industry for a short time; graduated, Columbia
University Law School 1948; admitted to the bar and commenced
practice in New Hampshire in 1948; returned to Plainfield, N.J., in
1949 and continued to practice law; was an unsuccessful candidate
for the State house of assembly in 1951 and for city councilman in
1952; elected on November 3, 1953, as a Democrat to the
Eighty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation
of Clifford Case; reelected to the Eighty-fourth Congress and
served from November 3, 1953, to January 3, 1957; unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1956 to the Eighty-fifth Congress;
elected to the United States Senate in 1958; reelected in 1964,
1970 and 1976 and served from January 3, 1959, until his
resignation on March 11, 1982; chairman, Special Committee on Aging
(Ninetieth and Ninety-first Congresses), Committee on Labor and
Public Welfare (Ninety-second through Ninety-fifth Congresses),
Committee on Human Resources (Ninety-fifth Congress), Committee on
Labor and Human Resources (Ninety-sixth Congress); one of the
congressional targets in the government operation known as
“ABSCAM”; convicted of charges related to this effort,
and sentenced on February 17, 1982, to three years in prison, of
which he served twenty-one months; during subsequent Senate
proceedings on an expulsion motion, he resigned his seat on March
11, 1982; was a resident of Bedminster, N.J. until his death on
November 17, 2001.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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