The President today announced his intention to nominate Mike Hayden, of Kansas, to be Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife at the Department of the Interior. He would succeed Constance Bastine Harriman.
Governor Hayden served as Governor of the State of Kansas from 1987 to 1990. Prior to this he served as a speaker of the Kansas House of Representatives, 1982 - 1986. From 1978 to 1982, he served as chairman of the house ways and means committee, Kansas House of Representatives.
Governor Hayden graduated from Kansas State University with a bachelor of science degree in wildlife conservation, 1966, and a master of science degree in biology from Fort Hays State University, 1974. Governor Hayden served in the U.S. Army, 1968 - 1970. He was born March 16, 1944, in Colby, KS. Governor Hayden is married, has two children, and resides in Topeka, KS.
George Bush, Nomination of Mike Hayden To Be an Assistant Secretary of the Interior Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/266118