George W. Haley

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George W. Haley (b. August 28, 1925 in Henning, Tennessee) is the younger brother of Pulitzer prize winner Alex Haley.

[edit] Early background

He was a classmate and contemporary of Martin Luther King, Jr. at Morehouse College.

[edit] Further education

Haley was the second African-American to receive a Law degree from the University of Arkansas. Worked with Attorney Thurgood Marshall on land marked Brown v. Topeka, Kansas Board of Education case challenging the separate but equal ruling of The United States Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson.

[edit] Later career

Haley served in national administrations since 1969 under Presidents Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Clinton, and George W. Bush. His government posts included chief counsel of the Federal Transit Administration from 1969 to 1973 and general counsel and congressional liaison of the U.S. Information Agency, now part of the State Department, from 1976 to 1977. In 1990, President George H.W. Bush appointed Haley chairman of the Postal Rate Commission.

Mr. Haley served as Ambassador to the Republic of The Gambia in West Africa at the pleasure of President Bill Clinton until 2001.