Nomination of Gerald E. Galloway, Jr., To Be a Member of the Mississippi River Commission

The President today announced his intention to nominate Gerald E. Galloway, Jr., to be a member of the Mississippi River Commission. He would succeed Jerome Bernard Hilmes.

Since 1979 Colonel Galloway has been professor and deputy head of the department of geography and computer science at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, NY. Prior to this he was district engineer in the Vicksburg District Corps of Engineers in Mississippi, 1974-1977. Colonel Galloway has served in the U.S. Army since 1957.

Colonel Galloway graduated from the U.S. Military Academy (B.S., 1957), Princeton University (M.S.E., 1962), U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (M. Military Arts and Science, 1968), Pennsylvania State University (M.P.A., 1974), and the University of North Carolina (Ph.D., 1979). Colonel Galloway was born November 27, 1935, in Mobile, AL. He is married, has six children, and currently resides in West Point.