The President today announced his intention to nominate Chapman Beecher Cox to be an Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Manpower and Reserve Affairs). He would succeed John S. Herrington.
Since 1981 Mr. Cox has been serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Logistics. Previously he was in the private practice of law with the firm of Sherman & Howard, Denver, Colo., in 1972-1981 and the firm of Adams, Duque & Hazeltine in Los Angeles, Calif. (1969-1972).
He served in the United States Marine Corps in 1966-1968. He graduated from the University of Southern California (B.A., 1962) and Harvard Law School (L.L.D., 1965). He is married, has two sons, and resides in Arlington, Va. He was born July 31, 1940, in Dayton, Ohio.
Ronald Reagan, Nomination of Chapman Beecher Cox To Be an Assistant Secretary of the Navy Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/262482