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Nomination of Richard Thomas McCormack To Be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Inter-American Foundation

February 03, 1986

The President today announced his intention to nominate Richard Thomas McCormack to be a member of the Board of Directors of the Inter-American Foundation.

Since August 1985 Mr. McCormack has served as the U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States. From 1982 to 1985, he was Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs. He was a consultant to the Department of State in 1981. From 1979 to 1980, he served as legislative assistant to Senator Jesse Helms. He was a private consultant in 1975-1978. He was Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury in 1974. In 1972 and 1974 he was a candidate for Congress in Pennsylvania. He was a member of the White House staff in 1969-1971. In 1968 he worked on the Nixon/Agnew campaign staff. In 1967 he was a staff member at the Peace Corps.

Mr. McCormack graduated from Georgetown University (B.A., 1963) and the University of Fribourg, Switzerland (Ph.D., 1966). He is married to the former Karen Hagstrom, has two children, and resides in Washington, DC. He was born March 6, 1941, in Bradford, PA.

Ronald Reagan, Nomination of Richard Thomas McCormack To Be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Inter-American Foundation Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/255371

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