Appointment of Nicholas F. Brady as a Member of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation

The President today announced his intention to appoint Nicholas F. Brady to be a member of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. He would succeed James A. Baker III.

Mr. Brady is currently Secretary of the Department of the Treasury in Washington, DC. Prior to this he was with Dillon, Read & Co., Inc., in New York City since 1954, serving as chairman of the board until 1988. He served as a U.S. Senator for the State of New Jersey, 1982, and has also served on the Strategic Forces Commission, 1983; National Bipartisan Commission on Central America, 1983; Commission on Executive, Legislative and Judicial Salaries, 1984; President's Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management, 1985; and the Presidential Task Force on Market Mechanisms, 1987.

Mr. Brady graduated from Yale University (B.A., 1952) and Harvard University (M.B.A., 1954). He was born April 11, 1930, in New York, NY. He is married, has four children, and resides in Washington, DC.