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Which elected office did William Averell Harriman hold?

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He was elected governor of New York (1955-59) and was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1956. Defeated for reelection in 1958 by Nelson A. Rockefeller, he became in 1961 President John F. Kennedy's special roving ambassador.

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