The President today announced his intention to nominate Charles H. Price II as Ambassador to Belgium. He would succeed Anne Cox Chambers, who has resigned.
Mr. Price served in the U.S. Air Force from 1953 to 1955. He is presently chairman of the board of the American Bank and Trust Co., of Kansas City, Mo. From 1955 to the present, he has been with the Price Candy Co. and is serving as president or chairman of the board of American Mortgage Co., Price Bank Building Corp., American Bancorporation, Inc., Linwood Securities Co., Twenty-one Central United, Inc. Since 1976 he has also been chairman of several businesses in Boise, Idaho.
He has received the Alumni Award from the University of Missouri School of Business and Public Administration; Award of Appreciation, Midwest Research Institute; and Outstanding Achievement Award, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Performing Arts Center.
Mr. Price was born April 1, 1931, in Kansas City, Mo. He attended Wentworth Military Academy and the University of Missouri.
Ronald Reagan, Nomination of Charles H. Price II To Be United States Ambassador to Belgium Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/246493