Nomination of Curtin Winsor, Jr., To Be United States Ambassador to Costa Rica

The President today announced his intention to nominate Curtin Winsor, Jr., of Washington, D.C., to be Ambassador to Costa Rica. He would succeed Francis J. McNeil.

Mr. Winsor was research assistant, Special Operations Research Office of the American University, in 1964-1967. He served in the Foreign Service in 1967-1971, successively as international relations officer on detail to the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and special projects officer in the Bureau of Congressional Relations in the Department. In 1971-1973 he was special assistant to the chairman of the Republican National Committee, and manager for international affairs at the Chase Manhattan Bank in Washington, D.C., in 1973-1979. Since 1979 he has been associate director of Alliance for Free Enterprise. He also has been president of Winsor Pittman Coal Co. (1980 to present) and Winsor Pittman Co. (1982 to present) in Charleston, W. Va. In 1980 he served as a member of the Reagan transition team, Department of State and Agency for International Development.

He graduated from Brown University (B.A., 1961) and American University (M.A., 1964; Ph.D., 1971). His foreign languages are Spanish and French. He was born April 28, 1939, in Philadelphia, Pa.