The President today announced that he will nominate Benjamin H. Read, of Washington, D.C., to be Deputy Under Secretary of State for Management. He would replace Richard M. Moose. Read is president of the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
Read was born September 14, 1925, in Philadelphia, Pa. He received a B.A. from Williams College in 1949 and an LL.B. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1952.
From 1952 to 1955, Read practiced law in Philadelphia, and in 1955 and 1956 he was an associate defender with the Volunteer Defender Association there. In 1957 and 1958, he was an attorney adviser in the Legal Adviser's Office at the State Department.
From 1958 to 1963, Read was legislative assistant to U.S. Senator Joseph S. Clark of Pennsylvania. From 1963 to 1969, he was special assistant to the Secretary of State and Executive Secretary at the State Department.
Read was acting Director, then Director, of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars from 1969 to 1973. Since 1973 he has been president of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, a Washington-based foundation dedicated to assisting Americans and Europeans to understand and resolve the common problems of industrial societies.
Jimmy Carter, Department of State Nomination of Benjamin H. Read To Be Deputy Under Secretary. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/243409