Biography
The son of Walter O. Snelling, Snelling was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He was in the U.S. Army Infantry in Europe from 1945 to 1946. He was married, June 14, 1947, to Barbara T. Weil, and they had four children. He received his bachelor's degree in government and economics from Harvard University in 1948.
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