James billington biography

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Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Carthage College, 2002. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), St. Norbert College, 2003.

Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Jewish Theological Seminary, 2005. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Washington College, 1999. Son of Nelson and Jane (Coolbaugh) Billington. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University South, 1999.

Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Quinnipiac University, 2000.

Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Georgetown University, 1993.

Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Le Moyne College College, 1982. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Mount Holyoke College, 1995. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University San Diego, 1998.

Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Lawrence University, 1999. HHD (honorary), Furman University, 1986.

HHD (honorary), Ball State University, 1988.

Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Bates College, 1993.

Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), American University, 1995. Member advisory board Foreign Affairs, 1974-1992, Theology Today, 1974-1984.Script writer and host of Humanities Film Forum, 1973. Board regents The National Library Medicine. Doctor (honorary), Russian State University for Humanities, Moscow, 2001.

Afterleavingschool he worked in a cotton mill for a time, but by the early 1880s he had become a Sundayschoolteacher and was running a barbershop in Market Street, Farnworth. Director American Association for Advancement of Slavic Studies, 1968-1971. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Virginia Theological Seminary, 1990.

Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Williams College, 1991.

Billington is fluent in Russian.

Librarian of Congress and International Initiatives

In 1999, Billington became the Librarian of Congress. Doctor of Philosophy, Oxford University, 1953. In 1859 he moved with his family to Farnworth, northwest of Manchester. Visiting lecturer to various universities in Europe and Asia. Vice-chairman Atlantic Council's Working Group on the Successor Generation, 1982-1986.

Trustee St.

Alban's School, 1979-1982. He then joined the faculty of Princeton University as a professor of history from 1964 to 1974.

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

From 1973 to 1987, Billington served as the director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.