Appointment of Edwin L. Harper as a Member of the Commission on Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Salaries

The President today announced his intention to appoint Edwin L. Harper to be a member of the Commission on Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Salaries for the period of the 1987 fiscal year of the Federal Government. He would succeed Lloyd Norton Cutler.

Since April of this year, Mr. Harper has been a senior vice president and chief financial officer, Campbell Soup Co. in Camden, NJ. Previously, he was executive vice president and director, Dallas Corp., 1983-1986; and Assistant to the President, the White House, 1981-1983.

Mr. Harper is married, has two children, and currently resides in Bryn Mawr, PA. He was born on November 13, 1941, in Belleville, IL.