Designation of Harry Amory Cahill as Deputy United States Representative on the United Nations Economic and Social Council

The President today designated Harry Amory Cahill, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to be Deputy Representative of the United States of America on the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. He would succeed Chester E. Norris.

Mr. Cahill is currently Acting Deputy Representative on the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations in New York City. Mr. Cahill has served as principal officer and consul general at the U.S. consulate general in Bombay; on detail at the Department of Commerce, 1982-1983; deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Colombo, 1979-1981; senior seminar, 1978-1979; counselor for economic affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Lagos; and Chief of the Division of Business Relations at the Department of State, 1974-1975.

Mr. Cahill graduated from Manhattan College (A.B., 1951) and George Washington University (M.S., 1972). He served in the United States Army, 1951-1954. He was born January 10, 1930, in New York City. Mr. Cahill is married, has six children, and resides in McLean, VA.