page_title: William Scranton III
section_title: Lieutenant Governor 1979–1987
hierarchical_section_title: William Scranton III / Political career / Lieutenant Governor 1979–1987
caption_attribution_description: English: Lieutenant Governor William Scranton (l) and Oran Henderson (r), director of the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency, at a March 28 press conference.
context_page_description: William Worthington Scranton III served as the 26th lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania from 1979 to 1987 in the administration of Governor Richard Thornburgh. He is the son of the late Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton, and a member of the wealthy and politically influential Scranton family, the founders of Scranton, Pennsylvania.
context_section_description: In 1978, he won the Republican primary for lieutenant governor and later that year became the youngest person ever elected lieutenant governor in Pennsylvania. His dual role as chairman of the Governor's Energy Council and chairman of the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Council put him at the center of the Three Mile Island crisis in 1979. As lieutenant governor, Scranton hired Nat Goldhaber, a member of the Transcendental Meditation movement, as his top aide in Harrisburg. In 1982, he was unanimously elected as Chairman of the National Conference of Lieutenant Governors.
caption: Scranton (L) and Oran Henderson (R) at a press conference
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