Donald S. Harrington

Donald Szantho Harrington (July 11, 1914 in Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts – September 16, 2005 in Romania) was an American politician and religious leader.

Education Harrington graduated from the University of Chicago in 1939, and began preaching at the People's Liberal Church on Chicago's South Side.

In the New York state election, 1966, Harrington ran for Lieutenant Governor of New York on the Liberal ticket with Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. They were defeated by the incumbent Republicans Nelson Rockefeller and Malcolm Wilson, but Harrington was elected a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1967. A past president of United World Federalists, Harrington wrote Religion in an Age of Science in 1965.

Personal life In 1939, Harrington married fellow seminary student Vilma Szantho (d. 1982). They had two children: Loni Hancock and David Harrington. In 1984, he married his first wife's niece, Anika Szantho, who was ordained a Unitarian minister in 1990. They lived in Transylvania where Harrington was active in economic development and his wife served several village congregations. He made his wife's maiden name his middle name.

Harrington died from complications of a gall bladder surgery, done in spring 2005, from which he never fully recovered.