United States Ambassador to El Salvador Nomination of Frank J. Devine.

The President today announced that he will nominate Frank J. Devine, of Washington, D.C., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to El Salvador. He would succeed Ignacio E. Lozano, Jr., who has resigned.

Devine was born June 30, 1922, in Albany, N.Y. He received a B.B.A. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1942. He served in the U.S. Army from 1943 to 1946.

Devine joined the Foreign Service in 1946 and served in various posts in Central and South America and at the State Department. From 1962 to 1966, he was political officer in Lisbon, and from 1966 to 1970 he was deputy chief of mission in Santo Domingo.

He served as deputy chief of mission in Caracas from 1970 to 1973, and from 1973 to 1976 was Director of North Coast Affairs in the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs at the State Department. In 1976 and 1977, he was Director of the Office of Andean Affairs, and since earlier this year he has been Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs.