Nomination of Samuel W. Speck, Jr., To Be an Associate Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency

The President today announced his intention to nominate Samuel W. Speck, Jr., to be an Associate Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (State and Local Programs and Support). He would succeed Lee M. Thomas.

Since 1977 Mr. Speck has served as State senator for the 20th district of Ohio and serves as Republican whip of the Ohio Senate. He is a member of the Finance and Education and Retirement Committees and is former chairman of the Energy, Natural Resources and Environment Committee. He is also an associate professor of political science at Muskingum College and serves as a member of the American Political Science Association and as a fellow of the African Studies Association.

He graduated from Muskingum College (1959) and Harvard University (M.A., 1963; Ph.D., 1968). He is married, has two sons, and resides in New Concord, Ohio. He was born January 31, 1937, in Canton, Ohio.