The President today announced that he will nominate John N. Gentry, of Reston, Va., to be Under Secretary of Labor. He would replace Robert Brown, resigned.
Gentry is the principal labor-management relations adviser to Alfred Kahn, the President's Advisor on Inflation and Chairman of the Council on Wage and Price Stability.
Gentry was born May 16, 1930, in Williamsport, Pa. He holds an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Maryland and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.
He served in a number of positions at the Labor Department, including Deputy Assistant Secretary for Labor-Management Relations and executive assistant to the Under Secretary of Labor.
In 1970 he entered private practice as a member of the Washington firm of Wirtz & Gentry, a law and public interest consulting firm. Gentry also served as president of the National Manpower Institute. In 1978 he served as Chairman of President Carter's board of inquiry under Taft-Hartley to investigate issues in the bituminous coal strike.
Jimmy Carter, Department of Labor Nomination of John N. Gentry To Be Under Secretary. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/248802