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Nomination of Bevis Longstreth To Be a Member of the Securities and Exchange Commission

June 23, 1982

The President today announced his intention to nominate Bevis Longstreth to be a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission for the remainder of the term expiring June 5, 1984. He would succeed Philip A. Loomis, Jr.

Mr. Longstreth has been serving as Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission since 1981. He practiced law with the firm of Debevoise, Plimpton, Lyons and Gates in 1962-1981 and was admitted to partnership in that firm in 1970. He served as secretary on the Special Committee on Science and Law of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York in 1962-1967. He has been a lecturer at Columbia Law School since 1975.

He graduated from Princeton University (B.S.E., 1956) and Harvard Law School (LL.B., 1961). He is married, has three children, and resides in New York, N.Y. He was born January 29, 1934.

Ronald Reagan, Nomination of Bevis Longstreth To Be a Member of the Securities and Exchange Commission Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/245521

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