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William

Fitts Ryan (June

28, 1922 – September 17, 1972) was an American lawyer and politician. He served

as a representative from New York in the United States House of

Representatives from 1961 until his death from throat cancer

in New York City in 1972. He was a member of

the Democratic

Party. Ryan was born in Albion, New York. His

father, Bernard Ryan, was a judge on the New York State Court of Appeals,

appointed by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt. He

attended Albion public schools for his elementary and secondary education, and

graduated 1940 from the Woodberry Forest School in Virginia.

Ryan entered Princeton University as member of

Class of 1944. From 1943 to 1946 during World War II,

he served in the United States Army in the South Pacific,

as an artillery lieutenant in the Thirty-second Infantry Division. He graduated

from the School of Public and International Affairs (now the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs) in 1947,

and two years later, in 1949, he graduated from Columbia Law School. As part of his

undergraduate degree, Ryan completed a senior thesis titled "New York

State Labor Legislation and Alfred E.

Smith." That same year, 1949, he was admitted to the bar and

began his practice. Ryan served as assistant district attorney in New York County from 1950 until 1957

and then again from 1957 until 1961. In 1961, he was elected to Congress as a

Democrat, representing Manhattan's Upper West

Side, and was elected five more times. Ryan was an early opponent of

American involvement in the Vietnam War,

being the first member of the U.S. House to speak out against the war, and

was active in supporting civil rights.

At the 1968 Democratic National Convention,

he was chosen as a delegate from New York. In 1965 Congressman Ryan was a

candidate for the Democratic nomination for Mayor of New York City. With

prominent support in the reform Democratic movement, he polled over 113,000

votes and finished third behind Abraham Beame and

Paul Screvane. While he endorsed the Democratic ticket subsequent to his

primary defeat, Republican-Liberal candidate John Lindsay was elected Mayor. Congressman

Ryan championed the creation of a unit of the National Park

Service from historic properties and significant natural resources

in the hands of the federal government around the New York City metropolitan area,

with the intention of providing millions of local residents and visitors the

opportunity to visit a unit of the National Park System who might never have

the opportunity otherwise. The enabling legislation to create the result, Gateway National Recreation Area,

was signed shortly after his death.

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