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Appointment of John S. McGowan as United States Commissioner on the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas

August 12, 1982

The President today announced his intention to appoint John S. McGowan to be United States Commissioner on the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas. He would succeed Harold Cary.

Mr. McGowan is serving as consultant to Castle & Cooke, Inc. He was senior vice president of Castle & Cooke, Inc., in 1977-1981 and vice president in 1972-1981. He was president and chief executive officer of Bumble Bee Seafoods, a division of Castle & Cooke, Inc., in 1966-1981. Mr. McGowan was president and chief operating officer of Bumble Bee Seafoods in 1963-1966 and executive vice president, Columbia River Packers Association, Inc./Bumble Bee Seafoods, Inc., in 1960-1963. He is a former director of the United States Tuna Foundation and is a former member of the American Fisheries Advisory Committee. He was a member of the United States Delegation to the first U.S./Japan Tuna Conference in Tokyo, Japan, in 1959.

He graduated from the University of Oregon (B.S., 1940). He is married, has three children, and resides in Lafayette, Calif. He was born June 10, 1918.

Ronald Reagan, Appointment of John S. McGowan as United States Commissioner on the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/246000

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