April 2011 © Frank H. Jump
William Warren Scranton was Governor of PA from 1963 – 1967. Although Scranton was originally from Madison, Connecticut, it was by chance he was born there at his family’s vacation home. Much of Scranton’s political and business careers centered in Scranton, Pennsylvania for which his ancestors were the founders and patriarchs. Scranton was president of Northeastern National Bank & Trust Company as well as serving on the boards of directors of high profile American corporations such as A&P, IBM, The New York Times, Pan American Airways, and the H.J. Heinz Company.Scranton also had affiliation with the Trilateral Commission and was asked to chair the President’s Commission on Campus Unrest after the Kent State shootings in 1970.¹
- William Warren Scranton – Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission
