Franklin D. Roosevelt

Executive Order 7167—Exemption of Joseph L. Smith from Compulsory Retirement for Age

August 29, 1935

Whereas section 204 of the act of June 30, 1932 (ch. 314, 47 Stat. 382, 404; 5 U.S.C., sec. 692b), provides:

"On and after July 1, 1932, no person rendering civilian service in any branch or service of the United States Government or the municipal government of the District of Columbia who shall have reached the retirement age prescribed for automatic separation from the service, applicable to such person, shall be continued in such service, notwithstanding any provision of law or regulation to the contrary: Provided, That the President may, by Executive Order, exempt from the provisions of this section any person when, in his judgment, the public interest so requires * * *";

And Whereas the public interest requires that Joseph L. Smith, a mechanician in the Senate Office Building under the Office of the Architect of the Capitol, who was exempted from compulsory retirement for a period of 2 years by Executive Order No. 6263, of August 30, 1933, be further exempted from the provisions of this section and continued in the service until August 31, 1936:

Now, Therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the aforesaid section, I do hereby exempt Joseph L. Smith from the provisions thereof and continue him in the service until August 31, 1936.

Signature of Franklin D. Roosevelt
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

The White House,
August 29, 1935.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Executive Order 7167—Exemption of Joseph L. Smith from Compulsory Retirement for Age Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/362718

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