- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 50 min., 23 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Attorney and government appointee George Haley was born on August 28, 1925 in Henning, Tennessee, the brother of Pulitzer prize-winner Alex Haley. In 1943, he graduated from Bordentown High School, a military boarding school in New Jersey. After receiving his law degree from University of Arkansas in 1952, he joined the firm of Stevens Jackson in Kansas. Haley served as deputy city attorney from 1954 to 1964. He was elected as a Kansas State Senator, serving in that capacity from 1964 to 1968. In 1969, he was appointed chief counsel of the Urban Mass Transportation Administration by President Richard Nixon. From 1973 to 1976, he served as associate director for equal employment opportunity at the United States Information Agency. In 1990, he was appointed chairman of the Postal Rate Commission. In 1998, Haley was named Ambassador to the Republic of The Gambia where he served until 2001. Haley passed away on May 13, 2015 at age 89.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with George Haley
- George Haley
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Edgar Carey Lane.
- OCLC
- 997165981
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with George Haley.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
- Playing Time
025023
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Racine Tucker Hamilton, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Edgar Carey Lane.
- Event
Recorded Silver Spring, Maryland 2004 May 20.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Federal Government Appointee.
- Added Author
Haley, George Williford Boyce, 1925-2015, interviewee.
Hamilton, Racine Tucker, interviewer.
Lane, Edgar Carey, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.