United Nations Nomination of Richard W. Petree To Be Alternate U.S. Representative for Special Political Affairs.

The President today announced that he will nominate Richard W. Petree, of Falls Church, Va., to be the Alternate U.S. Representative for Special Political Affairs in the United Nations. He would replace Allard K. Lowenstein, who has resigned.

Petree was born June 4, 1924, in Jamestown, N.Y. He received an A.B. from the University of Colorado in 1948 and an M.A. from Harvard University in 1950. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1943 to 1946.

Petree was an intelligence research analyst at the State Department from 1950 to 1957, and served with the Foreign Service in Tokyo, Fukuoka, and Addis Ababa, and at the State Department. In 1972 and 1973, he was Consul General in Naha, and from 1973 to 1976, he was counselor for political affairs in Tokyo. Since 1976 Petree has been Minister-Counselor for Political and Security Affairs at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations.