Agency for International Development Nomination of Jack Hood Vaughn To Be Assistant Administrator for Latin America and the Caribbean.

The President today announced that he will nominate Jack Hood Vaughn, of Washington, D.C., to be Assistant Administrator of the Agency for International Development (AID) for Latin America and the Caribbean. He would replace Abelardo Lopez Valdez, who has been appointed Chief of Protocol.

Vaughn has been senior vice president of Pierce International since 1979. He is a former Assistant Secretary of State for Latin America and Peace Corps Director.

He was born August 18, 1920, in Columbus, Mont. He received an A.B. (1943) and M.A. (1947) from the University of Michigan. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps.

Vaughn was director of USIA's Binational Centers in Bolivia and Costa Rica from 1949 to 1952 and was an economist with the AID missions to Panama and Bolivia from 1949 to 1952. He taught economics at Johns Hopkins University from 1958 to 1959 and served as AID's program officer for Europe and Africa in 1959.

In 1959 and 1960, Vaughn was Acting AID Mission Director in Guinea and in 1960 and 1961, he was Mission Director in Senegal and Mauritania. He was Regional Director of the Peace Corps for Latin America from 1961 to 1964 and U.S. Ambassador to Panama from 1964 to 1965. From 1965 to 1966, he was Assistant Secretary of State for Latin America and U.S. Coordinator of the Alliance for Progress.

From 1966 to 1969, Vaughn was Director of the Peace Corps. From 1969 to 1970, he was Ambassador to Colombia. He was president of the National Urban Coalition from 1970 to 1971 and campaign manager of the Harris for President campaign in 1971.

Vaughn was dean of international affairs at Florida International University in 1972. He was director for international development of the Children's Television Workshop from 1972 to 1975, and was responsible for creation of the foreign language versions of "Sesame Street."

From 1975 to 1977, Vaughn was president of Planned Parenthood Foundation-World Population. From 1977 to 1979, he was vice president of Development and Resources Corp.

Vaughn served as chairman of the Inter-American Literacy Foundation from 1971 to 1977.