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William Laird III

American politician

Field	Value
name	William Laird III
image	WilliamRLaird.jpg
imagesize	220px
jr/sr	United States Senator
state	West Virginia
term_start	March 13, 1956
term_end	November 6, 1956
appointer	William C. Marland
predecessor	Harley M. Kilgore
successor	Chapman Revercomb
birth_name	William Ramsey Laird III
birth_date
birth_place	Keswick, California, U.S.
death_date
death_place	Montgomery, West Virginia, U.S.
party	Democratic
spouse	Clara Cooke
children	3, including William IV
alma_mater	Greenbrier Military School
King College
West Virginia University
allegiance	United States
branch	United States Navy
battles	World War II

|honorific-suffix = |jr/sr = United States Senator King College West Virginia University

William Ramsey Laird III (June 2, 1916 – January 7, 1974) was a United States senator from West Virginia. Born in Keswick, California, he was educated in the public schools. He graduated from Greenbrier Military School, King College (in Bristol, Tennessee) and from West Virginia University in 1944. During the Second World War he served in the United States Navy. He was admitted to the bar in 1944 and commenced the practice of law in West Virginia; he was a member of West Virginia Board of Education in 1955 and a member of the board of directors of Merchants National Bank, Montgomery, West Virginia and the Upper Kanawha Valley Development Association. He was a member of the board of trustees of the Laird Foundation in Montgomery and was State tax commissioner in 1955–1956, when he resigned, having been appointed to the U.S. Senate on March 13, 1956, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Harley M. Kilgore. A Democrat, he served from March 13, 1956, to November 6, 1956. He was not a candidate for election to fill the vacancy and resumed the practice of law in Fayetteville and Montgomery.

Laird died in Montgomery in 1974; his remains were interred in Huse Memorial Park, Fayetteville.

He had three children, including William Laird IV.

References

(March 26, 1956). "Old School Tie".

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