Nomination of Clifford M. Barber To Be Superintendent of the United States Assay Office at New York
The President today announced his intention to nominate Clifford M. Barber to be Superintendent of the United States Assay Office, Department of the Treasury, at New York, N.Y.
Since 1977 Mr. Barber has been senior partner of Barber and Gross of Montgomery, N.Y. He had been in private practice since 1948.
Mr. Barber was village trustee, village of Walden, in 1949-51; appointed acting police justice in 1951-67; elected town justice, town of Montgomery, in 1955 and reelected to four terms, retiring in 1975. He is an active Republican and served as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1976 and 1980.
Mr. Barber was graduated from Rutgers University (B.A., 1940) and Cornell Law School (LL.D., 1947).
Mr. Barber is married, has eight children, and resides in Walden, N.Y. He was born October 8, 1917, in Elizabeth, N.J.
Ronald Reagan, Nomination of Clifford M. Barber To Be Superintendent of the United States Assay Office at New York Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/246224