| James Billington  AKA James Hadley Billington
Born: 1-Jun-1929
Birthplace: Bryn Mawr, PA
Died: 20-Nov-2018
Location of death: Washington, DC
Cause of death: Pneumonia
Gender: Male
Religion: Christian
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Historian, Curator Nationality: United States
Executive summary: 13th Librarian of Congress Military service: US Army (1953-56) Father: Nelson Billington (insurance broker)
Mother: Jane Coolbaugh (professional recipe taster)
Wife: Marjorie Anne Brennan (m. 1957, until his death, two daughters, two sons)
Daughter: Susan Billington Harper
Daughter: Anne Billington Fischer
Son: James Hadley Billington, Jr.
Son: Thomas Keator Billington
High School: Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA
University: Princeton University (1950)
University: Oxford University
Professor: Harvard University (1957-61)
Professor: Princeton University (1962-73)
Librarian of Congress (1987-)
Foreign Affairs
Theology Today
Alfalfa Club 1997
Kennedy Center ex-officio member
National Digital Strategy Advisory Board
American Philosophical Society
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
National Film Preservation Foundation Board of Directors (ex officio)
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Board of Directors
Rhodes Scholarship
Guggenheim Fellowship 1960
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
These Amazing Shadows (22-Jan-2011) · Himself
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