Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong.

In accordance with his 1966 pledge never to seek elected office he rebuffed a draft movement encouraging him to run for the U. S. Biography


Early life
William Scranton was born while the Scranton family was on vacation at a cottage in Madison Connecticut.

Republican Party politician. From 1976 to 1977 he served as United States Ambassador to the United Nations. William Warren Scranton (born July 19 1917) is a former U.