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Nomination of Joseph J. Tribble To Be an Assistant Secretary of Energy

March 20, 1981

The President today announced his intention to nominate Joseph J. Tribble to be an Assistant Secretary of Energy (Conservation and Renewable Energy).

Since 1946 Mr. Tribble has been engineer and supervisor of the Union Camp Corp. in Savannah, Ga. He has held positions as assistant power plant superintendent and power plant superintendent. In 1942-43 he was with the Bethlehem Steel Co.

Mr. Tribble has been involved in civic and political activities, including having served as chairman of the Savannah Junior Chamber of Commerce Public Affairs Committee; elected State senator in Georgia in 1963; chairman of the Republican Party of Georgia in 1964-65; and chairman of the Reagan for President campaign in the First Congressional District of Georgia in 1980. He has served as a delegate to the 1964, 1968, 1976, and 1980 Republican National Conventions.

He was graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology (B.S., 1942). Mr. Tribble is married and has four children. He resides with his family in Savannah, Ga. He was born in Forsyth, Ga., on August 30, 1920.

Ronald Reagan, Nomination of Joseph J. Tribble To Be an Assistant Secretary of Energy Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/247456

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