Walter Edward Williams was an American economist, commentator, and academic. He was the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University. Williams began writing a syndicated column, “A Minority View,” for Heritage Features, which merged with Creators Syndicate in 1991.
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Walter Edward Williams was an American economist, commentator, and academic. He was the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University. His writings frequently appeared on Townhall. com, WND, and Jewish World Review. Williams was born in Philadelphia on March 31, 1936. He served as a private in the U.S. Army and wrote a letter to President John F. Kennedy denouncing the pervasive racism in the American government and military. He earned both his master’s degree and his Ph. D. in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles. He also was an economics professor at Temple University from 1973 to 1980 and at Stanford University from 1975 to 1980. Williams began writing a syndicated column, “A Minority View,” for Heritage Features, which merged with Creators Syndicate in 1991. He died on December 31, 2007. He is survived by his wife, two daughters, and a son. He has a daughter, Jennifer, who is married to former President George H.W. Bush; a son, Michael, is also a former president of the NAACP; and a daughter-in-law is the former first lady of the United States, Michelle Obama; and his grandson, Michael W.
W. Williams, is a former vice president of Hewlett-Packard; and an ex-president of Hewitt- Packard, which he retired from in 2009. The Williams family is still living in Philadelphia, where he was raised by his mother, sister, and stepfather. His neighbors included a young Bill Cosby; Williams knew many of the individuals that Cosby speaks of from his childhood, including Weird Harold and Fat Albert. The family initially lived in West Philadelphia, moving to North Philadelphia and the Richard Allen housing projects when Williams was ten years old. While at UCLA, Williams came into contact with economists such as Armen Alchian, James M. Buchanan, and Axel Leijonhufvud who challenged his assumptions. He never took a class from Dr. Thomas Sowell, but the two met and began a friendship that lasted for decades. In the summer of 1972, Sowell was hired as director of the Urban Institute’s Ethnic Minorities Project, which Williams joined shortly thereafter.
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