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Nomination of Joseph Verner Reed To Be United States Representative to the United Nations Economic and Social Council

July 11, 1985

The President today announced his intention to nominate Joseph Verner Reed to be the Representative of the United States of America on the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations with the rank of Ambassador. He would succeed Alan Lee Keyes.

Mr. Reed served as Ambassador to Morocco from 1981 until June 1985. In 1963-1981 he was with Chase Manhattan Bank of North America in New York City, serving as assistant to the director (1963-1968), vice president and executive assistant to chairman David Rockefeller (1969-1981), and vice president and adviser to the chairman (1981). He was an assistant to the President of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development in 1961-1963.

He graduated from Yale University (B.A., 1961). He is married, has two children, and resides in Greenwich, CT. He was born December 17, 1937, in New York City.

Ronald Reagan, Nomination of Joseph Verner Reed To Be United States Representative to the United Nations Economic and Social Council Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/259804

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