United Nations Nomination of Richard W. Petree To Be Deputy U.S. Representative in the Security Council.

The President today announced that he will nominate Richard W. Petree, of Falls Church, Va., to be Deputy Representative of the United States in the Security Council of the United Nations, with the rank of Ambassador. He would replace Donald McHenry, who has been appointed U.S. Representative to the United Nations. Petree has been Alternate Representative of the United States for Special Political Affairs in the United Nations since 1978.

He was born June 4, 1924, in Jamestown, N.Y. He received an A.B. from the University of Colorado in 1948 and an M.A. from Harvard University in 1950. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1943 to 1946.

From 1946 to 1947, Petree was a personnel officer with the Department of the Army. He joined the State Department in 1950 as an intelligence research analyst. From 1957 to 1960, he was principal officer in Tokyo, and from 1960 to 1963, he was principal officer in Fukuoka.

Petree was an international relations officer from 1963 to 1967 and attended the National War College in 1967-68. From 1968 to 1972, he was posted in Addis Ababa as political officer, then counselor for political affairs.

From 1972 to 1973, he was Consul General in Naha. From 1973 to 1976, he was counselor for political affairs in Tokyo. From 1976 to 1978, he was Minister-Counselor for Political and Security Affairs at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations.