Jimmy Carter photo

President's Commission on Pension Policy Appointment of C. Peter McColough as a Member and Chairman.

September 07, 1978

The President today announced the appointment of C. Peter McColough, chairman and chief executive of Xerox Corp., as a member and Chairman of the President's Commission on Pension Policy.

McColough was born August 1, 1922, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He received an LL.B. from Dalhousie University in Halifax in 1947, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in 1949. He served as an airman in England with the Royal Navy during World War II.

McColough joined Xerox (then the Haloid Co.) in 1954 as general manager of the firm's first reproduction service center in Chicago. He became president of the company in 1966.

McColough is chairman of the executive committee of the International Executive Service Corps and serves on the board of directors of the New York Stock Exchange. He is a member of the Business Council, the Business Roundtable, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the steering committee of the National Committee for Full Employment.

Jimmy Carter, President's Commission on Pension Policy Appointment of C. Peter McColough as a Member and Chairman. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/248935

Filed Under

Categories

Attributes

Simple Search of Our Archives