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- Langbourne_Meade_Williams,_Jr. abstract "Langbourne Meade Williams, Jr. (February 5, 1903 – September 8, 1994) was an American businessman. Williams was one of eight children born to Langbourne Meade Williams (September 12, 1872 – April 2, 1932) and Susanne Catherine Nolting (August 29, 1876 – January 13, 1951) of Richmond Virginia. A descendant of Edmund Randolph, Bartholomew Dandridge and grandson of John Williams of the John L. Williams & Sons banking firm, in September 1930 he married Elizabeth Goodrich Stillman (d. 1956), sister of Chauncey Devereux Stillman, daughter of Charles Chauncey Stillman and granddaughter of James Stillman of the National City Bank, and a niece of Percy A. Rockefeller and Mrs. William G. Rockefeller. He married Frances Pinckney Breckinridge in 1956.He graduated from the Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Va. in 1921, received a bachelor's degree at the University of Virginia in 1924, and gained a Harvard University masters degree in business administration in 1926. He worked for the New York investment banking firm of Lee, Higginson & Company for a year before joining the family firm of John L. Williams & Sons. One of the investments of the family firm was with the Freeport-Texas Company for which he and some associates decided to launch a corporate raid with a proxy fight in 1928. The previous management at one point filed a $1 million libel suit against Mr. Williams and his associates for accusations that the managers had put their interests ahead of their shareholders. In 1930, the Williams group prevailed by less than 4,000 shares. At age 27 he return to New York to become vice president, treasurer and a director of the Freeport-Texas company. He became president of Freeport-Texas with John Hay Whitney as chairman three years later. He then served as chairman from 1958 until 1967.In 1941 he became a governor of New York Hospital and served until 1961, when he was named an honorary governor. In 1948 he assisted with the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe and later became a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was also a trustee of the George C. Marshall Research Foundation.Mr. Williams came into conflict with the US Government after Freeport-Texas was caught in 1959 investigating a government official in a suspected attempt to influence the government stockpiling contract which the company had enjoyed since having their nickel declared a cold war strategic commodity. The chairman of a House Government Operations subcommittee, Jack Brooks, denounced Mr. Williams for "disgraceful, ethically reprehensible snooping," for hiring a former FBI investigator to look into the private life of a General Services Administration official supervising a nickel plant in Cuba. Claiming the Administration official was hostile Mr Williams claimed "we felt it necessary to find out whether there was some special reason for his attitude." Freeport's nickel-mining operations in Cuba were seized after Fidel Castro came to power in 1959.".
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- Langbourne_Meade_Williams,_Jr. comment "Langbourne Meade Williams, Jr. (February 5, 1903 – September 8, 1994) was an American businessman. Williams was one of eight children born to Langbourne Meade Williams (September 12, 1872 – April 2, 1932) and Susanne Catherine Nolting (August 29, 1876 – January 13, 1951) of Richmond Virginia. A descendant of Edmund Randolph, Bartholomew Dandridge and grandson of John Williams of the John L. Williams & Sons banking firm, in September 1930 he married Elizabeth Goodrich Stillman (d.".
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