Josephine Haughton1

F, #106861

Family: Jacob Crockett

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James Sylvester Sr1

M, #106862

Family: Janice Aretta Crockett b. 9 Jan 1930, d. 26 Nov 2013

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MarriageSep 17, 19491

Louis Lyons Jr1

M, #106863, d. 2003

Family: Janice Aretta Crockett b. 9 Jan 1930, d. 26 Nov 2013

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Ronald Waring Haughton

M, #106864, b. 20 July 1916, d. 4 July 2005

Family: Anne Fletcher b. 19 May 1926, d. 2 Oct 2011

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BirthJul 20, 1916Toronto, Ontario, Canada
ResidenceSeattle, WA, USA
Graduation1937University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, BA in economics and business
1940 Census1940Olympia, Thurston Co., WA, USA, age 23, 5 years of college; State of Washington senior claims deputy2
MarriageFeb 23, 1952Grosse Pointe, MI, USA
Living1976Grosse Pointe Farms, MI, USA
OccupationWayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA, Professor emeritus and vice-president
Author1981Decisions of the Federal Labor Relations Authority by Ronald W. Haughton, Henery B. Frazier III, Leon B. Applewhaite and H. Stephan Gordon (1981) in 9 volumes
DeathJul 4, 2005
ObituaryJul 5, 2005Palm Harbor, FL, USA, Ronald W. Haughton, a noted labor mediator whose long career included mediating a dispute between the United Farm Workers and a major California grape grower in the 1960s and serving as chairman of the Federal Labor Relations Authority during the air-traffic controllers' strike in the 1980s, has died. He was 88.

Haughton died July 4 of complications from a stroke at his home in Palm Harbor, Fla., his family said.

Known as a consensus builder, he arbitrated 4,000 cases during a career that began in the early 1940s with the War Labor Board in Washington, D.C., and continued into his 80s as a private mediator. Haughton, who co-directed the joint Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations at the University of Michigan and Wayne State University in Detroit from 1956 to 1979, was frequently tapped to help settle disputes.

During the 1960s, President Johnson asked him to help mediate the racial integration of employees at Liggett & Meyers Tobacco Co. In addition, California Gov. Edmund G. "Pat" Brown appointed Haughton to help resolve problems between farmworkers and Di Giorgio Corp., a major grape grower.

With Haughton's help, a long-sought agreement for a union representation election at the Di Giorgio ranch near the Kern County town of Arvin was reached. When it was announced in October 1966, Brown called the pact a "historic agreement."

A month later, United Farm Workers head Cesar Chavez announced that Di Giorgio and the union would arbitrate their first contract for field workers beginning Dec. 1, with Haughton serving as one of two men conducting arbitration.

In 1970, Haughton was recruited by Theodore W. Kheel, New York City's chief labor mediator, to organize Mayor John V. Lindsay's new Board of Mediation for Community Disputes.

In 1979, at the request of President Carter, Haughton became head of the new three-member Federal Labor Relations Authority.

After thousands of members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization went on strike during contract negotiations with the government in 1981, President Reagan fired them for refusing to return to work. In the panel's vote to cancel the union's rights to be the exclusive bargaining agent for the controllers, Haughton was the lone dissenter. Strikes by federal employees are illegal.

In offering his minority opinion, Haughton said he would prefer to send the issue back to the authority's law judge if the union acted within five days to end the strike. He said he wanted the judge to hear more evidence and make a final recommendation for a remedy.

But if the union did not call off the strike by his deadline, Haughton warned, he would concur with his two colleagues in decertifying the organization.

Attempting to improve its case for a reversal of the panel's ruling stripping it of its status, the union said it was ready to end its strike when the government "ends its lockout."

But a government spokesman said the union's action did not change the administration's position that the striking controllers would not be taken back.

A week later, Haughton switched his vote, making it a 3-0 vote for decertification.

Born in Toronto in 1916, he spent much of his childhood in Seattle. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Washington in 1937 and his master's from the University of Wisconsin a year later.

After World War II, he served as assistant to the director of the U.S. Conciliation Service and then as assistant director of the Institute of Industrial Relations at UC Berkeley.

From 1950 to 1955, he was the impartial arbitrator for Ford Motor Co. and the United Automobile Workers.

Haughton is survived by his wife of 53 years, Anne; daughters Jan Tracy of Safety Harbor, Fla., Patty Haughton of Wilmington, Del., and Leslie Zemsky of Buffalo, N.Y; son John of Millersville, Md; and 13 grandchildren.
Notable(1916-2005) a noted labor mediator whose long career included mediating a dispute between the United Farm Workers and a major California grape grower in the 1960s and serving as chairman of the Federal Labor Relations Authority during the air-traffic controllers' strike in the 1980s
BiographyRonald W. Haughton was born in Toronto, Ontario, July 20, 1916 and attended primary schools in Canada and high school in Seattle. He received his B.A. in Economics and Business from the University of Washington in 1937, and his M.A. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin in 1938. Mr. Haughton has served with the U.S. Social Security Board (1941-1942), the Detroit and National War Labor Boards (1942-1945), the U.S. Conciliation Service (1946-1947), and the Institute of Industrial Relations at the University of California in Berkeley (1947-1950).
He has arbitrated or mediated labor disputes and has served on fact-finding boards and committees in most major industries throughout the country, including arbitration between Ford and the UAW (1950-1955), B.F. Goodrich and the United Rubber Workers (1955-1957), and Parke Davis and the Oil and Chemical Workers (1955-1960). In 1966, Gov. Edmund Brown appointed Haughton to serve as Co-Arbitrator, along with Sam Kagel, of the dispute between the DiGiorgio Corp., National Farm Workers Assn., Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee, and the Teamsters Union. In 1967, Haughton was the State-appointed mediator of the Detroit Teachers Strike.
In January, 1970, Mr. Haughton was appointed President of the Board of Mediation for Community Disputes in New York City, while continuing to serve as Co-Director of the Instituteof Labor and Industrial Relations at Wayne State University, a position he has held since 1955.

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  1. [S1523] Website, online unknown url, http://www.thepeerage.com/p62546.htm
  2. [S1479] 1940 U.S. Federal Census , Olympia, Thurston, Washington; Roll: T627_4365; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 34-38.

Holly Maxine Strum1

F, #106865, b. circa 1956

Family: Dewey Elwood Houghton Jr b. 9 Aug 1952

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Birthcirca 1956
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Living2013Plattsmouth, NE, USA

Cheryl Headley1

F, #106866, b. circa 1951

Family: Dewey Elwood Houghton Jr b. 9 Aug 1952

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Birthcirca 1951
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Living2013Omaha, NE, USA

Megan JoAnne Houghton1

F, #106867, b. 25 January 1977, d. 14 December 2013

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BirthJan 25, 19771
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DeathDec 14, 2013NE, USA1
ObituaryDec 17, 2013Omaha, NE, USA, Bigelow, Megan JoAnne Houghton
Jan 25, 1977 - Dec 14, 2013

Omaha. Survived by husband, Scott; son, Brian Alfery; daughter, Lillie; step-sons, Scott Jr., Devin; step-daughter, Tayler; mother, Holly Strum; father, Dewey Houghton; step-mother, Cheryl Houghton; sisters, Angelica, Tanya, Trudie; step-brother, Christopher; aunts, uncles, nieces, and nephews.

Published in Omaha World-Herald on Dec. 17, 20131

Scott Bigelow1

M, #106868

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Living2013

Brian Alfery Bigelow1

M, #106869

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Lillie Bigelow1

F, #106870

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Scott Bigelow Jr1

M, #106871

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Devin Bigelow1

M, #106872

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Tayler Bigelow1

F, #106873

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Angelica Houghton1

F, #106874

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Tanya Houghton1

F, #106875, b. 1979

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Birth19791

Trudie Houghton1

F, #106876, b. 1979

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Birth19791

Gregory Alexander1

M, #106877

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MarriageFeb 14, 1982Rivderside Co., CA, USA1

Benjamin Alexander1

M, #106878

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Sonya Alexander1

F, #106879

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Katy Alexander1

F, #106880

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John H. Porter

M, #106881, b. 5 March 1815, d. 12 February 1889

Family: Mary F. Houghton b. 1845, d. 26 May 1895

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BirthMar 5, 18151
1870 Census1870Viola, Olmsted Co., MN, USA, age 25, domestic servant; and J.H. Potter, 25, farm laborer; in household of C. L. Calter2
Marriage1870Olmsted Co., MN, USA
DeathFeb 12, 1889
BurialForest Hills Cemetery, Owatonna, Steele Co., MN, USA

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  1. [S1485] Findagrave.com, online http://www.findagrave.com, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi
  2. [S1228] 1870 U.S. Federal Census , Viola, Olmsted, Minnesota; Roll: T132_8; Page: 968; Image: 589; Family History Library Film: 830428.

Ryan Cioppa1

M, #106883

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Living2013Portland, ME, USA

Zachary Cioppa1

M, #106884

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Living2013China, ME, USA

Shawn Houghton1

M, #106885, b. circa 1971

Family: Heather (?)

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Birthcirca 1971ME, USA1
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Living2013South China, ME, USA

Heather (?)1

F, #106886

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Jacob Houghton1

M, #106887

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BirthME, USA1

Peyton Houghton1

M, #106888

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BirthME, USA1

Easton Houghton1

M, #106889

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Tammy L. Houghton1

F, #106890, b. circa 1975

Family: Eric Lunt

  • Marriage*: Tammy L. Houghton married Eric Lunt.1

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Birthcirca 1975ME, USA1
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