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Kathleen Harriman Mortimer (December 7, 1917 – February 17, 2011) was an American journalist and socialite who played an important role in helping her father and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt with behind-the-scenes management of the American delegation to the Yalta Conference.
17 de feb. de 2011 · Kathleen Lanier Harriman was born on Dec. 7, 1917, the younger of two daughters of Mr. Harriman and his first wife, Kitty Lanier Lawrance. Her paternal grandfather, E. H. Harriman, head of the Union Pacific Railroad, had left a fortune estimated at $70 million to $100 million.
18 de abr. de 2018 · On May 16, 1941, Kathleen Harriman, the daughter of the new American special envoy to Britain, W. Averell Harriman, was on a train speeding to London for her first look at war.
William Averell Harriman (November 15, 1891 – July 26, 1986), better known as Averell Harriman, was an American Democratic politician, businessman, and diplomat.
When Kathleen Lanier Harriman was born on 7 December 1917, in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States, her father, Gov. William Averell Harriman, was 26 and her mother, Kathleen Lanier "Kitty" Lawrance, was 24. She married Stanley Grafton Mortimer Jr. in 1947, in United States.
19 de feb. de 2011 · A daughter of W. Averell Harriman, Mrs. Mortimer’s life was a window onto Gilded Age America and the changing role of American women in the era between the world wars.
27 de feb. de 2011 · Sat 26 Feb 2011 at 21:00. Kathleen Mortimer, who died on February 17 aged 93, was a daughter of Averell Harriman, the American tycoon and diplomat; she facilitated his affair with Winston...
