Department of the Interior Nomination of Wallace O. Green To Be an Assistant Secretary.

The President today announced that he will nominate Wallace O. Green, of Washington, D.C., to be an Assistant Secretary of the Interior. He would replace John Henry Kyl, resigned, and his area of responsibility would be territorial and international affairs. Green has been serving in this position in an acting capacity since earlier this year.

He was born March 26, 1948, in Washington, D.C. He received an A.B. from Morgan State University in 1970 and an M.S. from Boston University in 1971.

Green was a political and public relations consultant from 1971 to 1973 and an advertising executive from 1973 to 1974. From 1975 to 1976, he was staff director of the House District Subcommittee on Bicentennial Affairs, the Environment, and International Community.

From 1976 to 1977, Green was staff director of the congressional Joint Committee on Arrangements for Commemoration of the Bicentennial. He joined the Interior Department in 1977 as Executive Assistant to the Under Secretary and then served as Deputy Under Secretary from 1978 until February 1980.