The President today announced his intention to nominate Daniel G. Amstutz to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for International Affairs and Commodity Programs. He would succeed Seeley Lodwick.
Since 1978 Mr. Amstutz has been a general partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co., in charge of commodity activities. Previously he was with the Cargill Investor Services, Inc., Chicago, Ill., for nearly 25 years. Mr. Amstutz was president and chief executive officer in 1972-1978; assistant vice president and director of feed grain merchandising, Minneapolis, Minn., in 1967-1972; assistant manager, wheat merchandising, Minneapolis, in 1960-1967; and senior merchant, Fort Worth, Tex., in 1954-1960.
He is a director of the National Grain and Feed Association and chairman of National's Commodity Exchange Committee. He is a member of the Chicago Board of Trade; the Chicago Mercantile Exchange; the Commodity Exchange, Inc., of New York; the Coffee, Sugar, and Cocoa Exchange; and the New York Mercantile Exchange.
He graduated from Ohio State University (B.S., 1954). He resides in New York, N.Y. He was born November 8, 1932, in Cleveland, Ohio.
Ronald Reagan, Nomination of Daniel G. Amstutz To Be an Under Secretary of Agriculture Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/262919