Appointment of Calvin M. Whitesell as a Commissioner of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Commission

The President today announced his intention to appoint Calvin M. Whitesell to be a Commissioner of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Commission. He will succeed Anna M. Rosenberg.

Mr. Whitesell is an attorney with the law firm of Whitesell, Morrow and Romine in Montgomery, AL. He is a member of the Alabama Trial Lawyers Association and of the American Bar Association Committee on Governmentally Assisted Housing Programs. He served as a special assistant attorney general of Alabama in 1973-1979.

He graduated from the University of Alabama (J.D., 1951). He is married, has three children, and resides in Montgomery, AL. He was born November 22, 1926, in Bainbridge, GA.