The President today announced his intention to nominate George W. Cunningham, of Newbern, Tenn., to be Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Energy. Cunningham has been Deputy Chief of the U.S. Mission to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria, since 1978.
He was born December 3, 1930, in Union City, Tenn. He received a B.S. in chemical engineering and an M.S. in metallurgy from the University of Tennessee and a Ph.D. in metallurgical engineering from Ohio State University.
From 1955 to 1966, Cunningham was with the Batelle Memorial Institute. From 1966 to 1978, he was with the Atomic Energy Commission and its successor agencies, beginning as a metallurgical engineer and finally serving as Program Director of Nuclear Energy with the Energy Department.
Jimmy Carter, Department of Energy Nomination of George W. Cunningham To Be an Assistant Secretary. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/248438