Community Services Administration Nomination of Michael T. Blouin To Be an Assistant Director.

The President today announced that he will nominate Michael T. Blouin, of Dubuque, Iowa, to be Assistant Director of the Community Services Administration. He would replace Robert Smith, resigned.

Blouin is a former U.S. Representative from Iowa and was a consultant on Indian education to the Assistant Secretary of the Interior until earlier this year.

He was born November 7, 1945, in Jacksonville, Fla. He received a B.A. from Loras College, Dubuque, Iowa, in 1966.

From 1967 to 1969, Blouin taught fifth grade in Dubuque. From 1970 to 1974, he was an advertising consultant. He served in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1968 to 1972 and in the Iowa Senate from 1972 to 1974.

Blouin was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1974 and reelected in 1976. He was a member of the House Education and Labor Committee and chairman of its Advisory Panel on Indian Education.

In 1979 Blouin was Director of the Information Security Oversight Office at the General Services Administration.