William R. Laird, III

William Ramsey Laird III ( born June 2, 1916 in Keswick, Shasta County, California, † January 7, 1974 in Montgomery, West Virginia ) was an American politician of the Democratic Party, who represented the state of West Virginia in the U.S. Senate.

William Laird attended the public schools and the Greenbrier Military School in Lewisburg and Kings College in Bristol (Tennessee), before he took his degree in 1944 at West Virginia University. During the Second World War he served in the U.S. Navy. After recording to the bar he began to practice as a lawyer.

1955 Laird belonged to the Board of Education of the State of West Virginia; Furthermore, he was on the board of the Merchants National Bank in Montgomery and the Upper Kanawha Valley Development Association and a board member of the Laird Foundation. From 1955 to 1956 he was the tax authority of West Virginia as a Commissioner. He put these items down, after he was appointed to the U.S. Senate in Washington, where he performed on March 13, 1956, the successor of the late Harley M. Kilgore on. Already on 6 November of the same year he retired again from the Senate; in the by-election, he decided not to run.

As a result, William Laird worked as a lawyer in Fayetteville and Montgomery again.