Rural Electrification Administration Nomination of Robert W. Feragen To Be Administrator.

The President today announced that he will nominate Robert W. Feragen, of Reston, Va., to be Administrator of the Rural Electrification Administration for a term of 10 years. He would replace David Hamil, resigned.

Feragen was born January 28, 1925, in Minot, N. Dak. He received a B.A. (1950) and M.F.A. (1952) from the State University of Iowa. He served in the U.S. Army from 1943 to 1946.

Between 1952 and 1961, Feragen was an assistant professor at Texas A&M College and at the State University of New York. From 1961 to 1963, he was information director for the East River Electric Power Cooperative in Madison, S. Dak., and from 1963 to 1971, he was information director for the Basin Electric Power Cooperative in Bismarck, N. Dak.

Feragen was general manager of the Northeast Public. Power Association in Littleton, Mass., from 1971 to 1974, and general manager of Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Co. from 1974 to 1978. Since earlier this year he has been Deputy Administrator of the Rural Electrification Administration.

Feragen is a member of the American Public Power Association and chairman of its legislative and resolutions committee. He served on the Governor's Commission on Public Power in Massachusetts.