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Clan Munro USA
Genealogy Pages
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 1919 - 2002 (83 years)
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| Name |
Carrington Williams [1] |
| Born |
21 Jun 1919 |
Brookneal, Campbell Co., Virginia, USA  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
3 Aug 2002 |
Fairfax, Fairfax (City), Virginia, USA |
- Carrington died at the Inova Fairfax Hospital.
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| Person ID |
I25677 |
Munro |
| Last Modified |
19 Jan 2011 |
| Father |
Richard Douglas Williams, b. 5 Dec 1879, Baltimore, Baltimore (city), Maryland, USA , d. 27 Aug 1947, Lynchburg, Lynchburg (City), Virginia, USA (Age 67 years) |
| Mother |
Louise Monroe, b. 31 May 1883, , Pittsylvania Co., Virginia, USA , d. 15 Jan 1969, Brookneal, Campbell Co., Virginia, USA (Age 85 years) |
| Married |
26 Oct 1904 |
The Oaks, Charlotte Co., Virginia |
| Family ID |
F7807 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Carla Elaine Shriner, b. Abt 1921, d. 22 Dec 1970 (Age ~ 49 years) |
| Married |
17 Jan 1947 |
Tokyo, , Tokyo, Japan |
| Children |
| | 1. Allison Douglass Williams, b. 26 Jul 1948, Richmond, Richmond (city), Virginia, USA , d. 2 Dec 1960, Falls Church, Falls Church (city), Virginia, USA (Age 12 years) |
| + | 2. Living |
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| Last Modified |
20 Jan 2009 |
| Family ID |
F8911 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Carrington received his A.B. degree from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland in 1940. He went on to the University of Virginia Law School receiving his LL.B. in 1942.
He joined the law firm of McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe, in Tysons Corner, Virginia, eventually retiring as a partner in the firm.
He served in several public offices including member of the Dulles Airport Regional Economic Study Commission, member of the Governor's Regional Economic Development Advisory Council for District 6, Director of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority and Chairman of the Planning Committee (1986-1994), member of the Virginia House of Delegates 1966-1970, 1972-1978. He also represented the Authority on Moscow Civil Airports Feasibility Study.
He was a Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel in Washington, D.C.; a Trustee and former Co-Director of the Virginia Conference on Federal Taxation. He was also a Fellow of the Virginia Law Foundation Board, Chairman of the Board of the Washington Airports Task Force and served as General Counsel of the International Trade Association of Northern Virginia, Inc. He was a member of the Northern Virginia Roundtable and of its Executive Committee; a Trustee of the George Mason University Foundation in Fairfax, Virginia (1972-1995); served on the Transportation and Environmental Committee of the Greater Washington Board of Trade, and a Trustee for the Association for the Preservation of Civil War Sites, Inc.
In 1982, he was named Citizen of the Year by the Fairfax County Federation of Citizens' Associations. In 1991, he was the recipient of the George Mason Medal which is awarded by the George Mason University for outstanding public service. In 1994 he was the Turkey Roast Honoree of the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce.
He was a member of the Immanuel Church-on-the-Hill Episcopal Church in Alexandria, Virginia.
His wife, Dorreen, was an attorney in Fairfax, Virginia. They had two children.
In 1995, he was living at 3543 Half Moon Circle in Falls Church, Virginia.
Ref: Clan Munro files - Williams, Carrington - Biographical Data
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«i»Carrington Williams dies -- was Va. delegate
by Ellen Robertson
Times-Dispatch staff writer
Aug 06, 2002
In 1972, Joint Resolution 75, introduced in the Virginia House of Delegates by Del. Carrington Williams, D-Fairfax, called for a constitutional convention to require that the federal budget be balanced except in an emergency. It foreshadowed later legislation calling for a balanced federal budget.
Mr. Williams, 83, a tax lawyer who represented Fairfax County and the cities of Fairfax and Falls Church in the Virginia General Assembly from 1966 until 1969 and from 1972 to 1978, died Saturday in a Fairfax hospital. He was a Falls Church resident.
A funeral will be Tuesday at 1 p.m. at Immanuel Chapel on the Hill in Alexandria. Burial will be private.
A Brookneal native, he earned a bachelor's degree at Johns Hopkins University in 1940 and his law degree at the University of Virginia in 1942. He served in the Army Air Forces in the Pacific Theater during World War II and rose to the rank of captain.
In 1946, he served as the youngest defense counsel at the war-crimes trials in Japan, defending Naoki hoshino, called "Tojo's Brains" by many.
"My client did not hang. I felt good about that," Mr. Williams said in a 1978 interview.
After the war, Mr. Williams practiced law in Richmond until about 1955 and then moved to Northern Virginia.
He was the widower of Carla Elaine Shriner Williams, who died in 1971. A 12-year-old daughter, Allison Douglass Williams, died in 1960 when she was struck by a car after she fell from her bicycle. His stepdaughter, Sheila H. Jones, died in 1987.
Survivors include his wife of 29 years, Doreen Saxton Jones Williams; a son, Barclay M. Williams of Austel, Ga.; a stepdaughter, Patricia Jones Reid of Louisville, Ky.; a brother, Berkley Williams of Frankfurt, Germany; one grandchild and a step-grandchild.«/i»
(Obituary for Carrington Williams - TimesDispatch.com - 9 Aug 2002)
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«i»Lawyer, Va. Del. Carrington Williams Dies
Carrington Williams, 83, a McLean lawyer and former member of the Virginia House of Delegates who was board chairman of the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation, died Aug. 3 at Inova Fairfax Hospital. He died after a heart attack and surgery for blood clots that formed after a July 22 auto accident in which his car was struck from behind on Route 50.
Wr. Williams, who was of counsel to the McLean law firm of McGuire Woods LLP and was a retired firm partner, served in the Virginia legislature from 1966 to 1970 and again from 1972 to 1978. He unsuccessfully sought the Democratic Party nomination for the U.S. Senate in 1970.
He was a planning committee chairman of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority from 1986 to 1994 and was founding chairman of the Washington Airports Task Force from 1982 to 1996.
He also served on the board of the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum. A 25-year trustee of the George Mason University Foundation, he was a 1991 recipient of the George Mason Medal.
Mr. Williams, a past chairman of the Civil War Preservation Trust, was founding chairman of the foundation that succeeded it. Through those posts, he led in securing management plans for the battlefields and in coordinating federal and state efforts to secure funding to preserve the historic battlefields for future generations.
For example in 2000 he helped secure $3.5 million from the Virginia General Assembly for land preservation at the Kerns, Third Winchester and Cedar Creek battlefields.
Established by Congress in 1996, the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields National Historic District includes Augusta, Clarke, Frederick, Highland, Page, Rockingham, Shenandoah and Warren counties as well as the cities of Harrisonburg, Staunton, Waynesboro and Winchester.
Mr. Williams, who lived in Falls Church, was born in Brookneal, Va. He was a 1940 graduate of Johns Hopkins University and a 1942 graduate of the University of Virginia Law School. He served in the Army Air Forces in the Pacific during World War II.
He was assistant trial section chief of the Justice Department's tax division in the late 1950s and became a tax lawyer and partner in the law firm of Boothe, Pritchard & Dudley.
While serving as a state legislator from Fairfax County, he was usually described as a moderate-conservative Democrat. In the House of Delegates, he served on the tax-legislation-writing Finance Committee and chaired the state's advisory Revenue Resources Commission.
His first wife, Carla Williams died in 1971. His daughter, Allison Williams, also died.
Survivors include his wife of 29 years, Doreen S., of Falls Church; a son from his first marriage, Barclay M., of Austell, Ga.; a step-daughter, Patricia J. Reid of Louisville; a brother; and two grandchildren.«/i»
(Obituary for Carrington Williams - The Washington Post - 7 Aug 2002)
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«i»Carrington Williams services held
By Bill Elvin
Times Staff Writer
Carrington Williams, a former member of the Virginia House of Delegates and a leader in the development of Dulles International Airport, died Aug. 3 at Inova Fairfax Hospital. He was being treated for blood clots when he suffered a heart attack.
Born in Brookneal, Va., Mr. Williams was a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and the University of Virginia Law School.
He served in the Army in the office of the Judge Advocate General in World War II. He practiced law in Richmond before moving to Fairfax and joining the Internal Revenue Service.
Later, he was a member of the Tysons law form McGuire, Woods, Battle and Boothe.
He served 10 years in the Virginia House and was a candidate for the U.S. Senate. He was on the board of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority and the National Air and Space Museum.
He and his wife of 29 years, Doreen S. Williams, lived in the Lake Barcroft area.
He also leaves a son, Barclay M. Williams, of Austell, Ga.; a daughter, Patricia J. Reid, of Louisville, Ky.; a brother, Berkeley Williams, of Frankfurt, Germany; and two grandchildren. he was predeceased by daughters Allison Williams and Sheila H. Jones.
The funeral service was Aug. 6 at Immanuel Church on the Hill in Alexandria.
His first wife, Carla, died in 1971.
The family suggests that memorial contributions be made to the Shenandoah Valley Battlefield Fund, 8895 Collins Road, P.O. Box 897, New Market, VA 22844, or the Civil War Preservation Trust, 1331 H. St. N.W., Suite 1001, Washington, D.C. 20005.«/i»
(Obituary for Carrington Williams - Times Community Newspapers - unknown date)
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Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA
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- [S784] Clan Munro files - Williams, Carrington, Carrington Williams, Obituaries for Carrington Williams from several newspapers (Reliability: 3).
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