Office of the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations Nomination of Michael B. Smith To Be a Deputy Special Representative.

The President today announced that he will nominate Michael B. Smith, of Potomac, Md., to be Deputy Special Representative for Trade Negotiations. He would replace Alan Wolff, resigned. Smith has been chief negotiator for textile matter's of the United States since 1975.

He was born June 16, 1936, in Marblehead, Mass. He graduated from Harvard College in 1958.

Smith joined the Foreign Service in 1958 and was stationed in Tehran and N'Djamena, Chad. He was Staff Assistant to the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs from 1965 to 1966. From 1967 to 1968, Smith was deputy principal officer in Strasbourg, and from 1969 to 1970, he was principal officer in Lyon.

Smith was assigned to the White House in 1970 as Chief of Presidential Correspondence. In 1973 he was reassigned to the State Department as Deputy Chief of the Fibers and Textiles Division, and in 1974 he became Chief of the Division.