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Nomination of W. Allen Wallis To Be an Under Secretary of State

July 19, 1982

The President today announced his intention to nominate W. Allen Wallis to serve as the Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. He would succeed Myer Rashish.

From 1962 until the present, Mr. Wallis has been affiliated with the University of Rochester, first as president and chief executive officer and professor of economics and statistics, and since 1970, as chancellor and trustee. Concurrently, in 1978, he become professor emeritus and honorary trustee.

Mr. Wallis began his academic career in 1935 as Granville W. Garth Fellow in Political Economy at Columbia University. In 1937 he was named as instructor in the department of economics, Yale University. From 1938 to 1946, Mr. Wallis was on the faculty of the department of economics at Stanford University, first as assistant and later associate professor of economics. In 1946 he moved to the University of Chicago faculty as professor of statistics and economics, Graduate School of Business. In 1949 he served as chairman of the department of statistics and, from 1956 until 1962, was dean of the Graduate School of Business.

Mr. Wallis has served the Federal Government in numerous capacities, including membership on the President's Commission on an All-Volunteer Armed Force (1969-1970), the National Commission on Productivity (1970-1974), and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (1975-1978). Moreover, he was on the task force on education and the transition team on the International Communication Agency for President-elect Reagan.

Over the past 20 years, Mr. Wallis has been elected to the board of directors of nine major U.S. corporations, including Bausch & Lomb, Macmillan, Eastman Kodak, Metropolitan Life Insurance, and Standard Oil of Ohio. In addition, Mr. Wallis holds several trusteeships and has served the academic, civic, and philanthropic communities in numerous capacities. He has authored 10 books and monographs and frequently has published scholarly articles on economics and public and international policy.

Mr. Wallis graduated magna cum laude with an A.B. from the University of Minnesota in 1932. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. In addition, he studied economics on the graduate level at the University of Minnesota and the University of Chicago from 1932 to 1935. He is married to the former Anne Armstrong and has two children. He was born November 5, 1912, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Ronald Reagan, Nomination of W. Allen Wallis To Be an Under Secretary of State Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/246001

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