Department of Education Nomination of Martha Elizabeth Keys To Be Assistant Secretary for Legislation.

The President today announced his intention to nominate Martha Elizabeth Keys, of Manhattan, Kans., to be Assistant Secretary of Education for Legislation, a new position.

Keys is now a special adviser to the Secretary of Education and was U.S. Representative from the Second District of Kansas from 1974 to 1978.

She was born August 10, 1930, in Hutchinson, Kans. She received a B.A. from the University of Missouri in 1951.

As a Member of Congress, she served on the House Ways and Means Committee and on the Subcommittees on Health and on Public Assistance and Unemployment Compensation.