William T. Corbett was an United States Department of the Interior

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 attorney who served as Secretary of Guam

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 under Ford Quint Elvidge

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, and later acting Governor of Guam from May 19, 1956 to October 2, 1956. He was the brother of Representative

United States House of Representatives

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 Robert J. Corbett

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. Graduating from University of Pittsburgh School of Law

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, Corbett opened a private workers' compensation

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 law firm before joining the Department of the Interior. He died on April 17, 1971 at the Northern Virginia

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Doctors Hospital at the age of 69.