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Appointment of C. Thomas Burke as Deputy Commissioner of the Commission for the Study of Alternatives to the Panama Canal

September 06, 1991

The President today announced his intention to appoint C. Thomas Burke, of New York, to be Deputy Commissioner of the Commission for the Study of Alternatives to the Panama Canal. He would succeed J. Michael Farrell.

Currently Mr. Burke is executive vice president and chief executive officer of Meehan Overseas Terminal in Albany, NY. Prior to this he was executive director of Port Everglades in New York.

Mr. Burke graduated from Northeastern University, (A.B.A., 1957) and Blackstone School of Law-Chicago (L.L.B., 1968). He was born August 30, 1933, in Albany, NY. He resides in Saratoga Springs, NY.

George Bush, Appointment of C. Thomas Burke as Deputy Commissioner of the Commission for the Study of Alternatives to the Panama Canal Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/266082

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