interest in human rights earned him much respect in his short time in office. Some in the Republican Party pushed for Scranton to be named Ford's running mate for the 1976 presidential election, but Ford chose Senator Robert Dole of Kansas instead. After his term as UN Ambassador, Scranton retired to his home in Dalton, Pennsylvania. Scranton's son, William Scranton III, served as Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania under Richard Thornburgh. He ran unsuccessfully for governor in the 1986 election and was for a while considered a leading candidate for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in the 2006 election but ultimately dropped out of the race. Scranton was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1997. Death Nine days after his 96th birthday, Scranton died on July 28, 2013, from a cerebral hemorrhage at a retirement community in Montecito, California where he lived with his wife. His widow, Mary Scranton, the former First Lady of Pennsylvania, died from Alzheimer's disease on December 26, 2015, at the age of 97. In popular culture In Jeff Greenfield's alternate history book If Kennedy Lived, Scranton is featured as Senator Barry Goldwater's running mate in the 1964 presidential election, instead of William E. Miller. See also Scranton family References External links Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Biography |- |- |- |- 1917 births 2013 deaths 20th-century American politicians American Presbyterians Ford administration cabinet members Republican Party governors of Pennsylvania Hotchkiss School alumni People from the Scranton–Wilkes-Barre metropolitan area People from Madison, Connecticut People from Montecito, California American people of English descent Permanent Representatives of the United States to the United Nations Presbyterians from Pennsylvania Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania Military personnel from Pennsylvania United States Air Force officers United States Army Air Forces officers United States Army Air Forces pilots of World War II Candidates in the 1964 United States presidential election Yale Law School alumni Fessenden School alumni Members of the American Philosophical Society Centrism in the United States