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United States financier who negotiated a treaty with the Soviet Union banning tests of nuclear weapons (1891-1986)

Averell Harriman [Averell Harriman]

(1891–1986) a US ↑diplomat. He was the US ↑ambassador to the Soviet Union (1943–6) and to Britain (1946). He was also the US Secretary of Commerce (1946–8) and ↑governor of New York (1955–8). Harriman helped to carry out the ↑Marshall Plan (1949–50) and to establish the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty (1963). He was the main US representative at the Vietnam peace talks in Paris in 1968. His wife was Pamela Harriman.