The President today announced his intention to nominate Robert Logan Clarke to be Comptroller of the Currency, Department of the Treasury, for a term of 5 years. He would succeed C.T. Conover.
Since 1968 Mr. Clarke has been an attorney with the law firm of Bracewell & Patterson in Houston, TX. He serves as head of the banking section of Bracewell & Patterson, which he formed in 1972. He is a director of Allied Beltway Bank in Houston and an advisory director of the Centerville State Bank in Centerville, TX. He served as a captain in the United States Army in 1966-1968.
He graduated from Rice University (B.A., 1963) and Harvard Law School (LL.B., 1966). He is married, has one child, and resides in Houston, TX. He was born June 29, 1942, in Tulsa, OK.
Ronald Reagan, Nomination of Robert Logan Clarke To Be Comptroller of the Currency Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/259114