United States Ambassador to Bolivia Nomination of Marvin Weissman.

The President today announced that he will nominate Marvin Weissman, of Bethesda, Md., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to Bolivia. He would replace Paul H. Boeker, resigning.

Weissman has been Ambassador to Costa Rica since 1977.

He was born January 25, 1927, in Cleveland, Ohio. He received a Ph. B. from the University of Chicago in 1948 and an M.P.A. from Maxwell Graduate School at Syracuse University in 1953. He served in the U.S. Army from 1945 to 1946.

From 1950 to 1954, Weissman was an examiner with the Bureau of the Budget. From 1954 to 1955, he was a public administration advisor with the International Cooperation Administration in Santiago, Chile. From 1955 to 1958, he was an economic and financial consultant in Chile and Venezuela.

In 1958 Weissman was director of the International Cooperation Administration's first Latin American regional conference on administrative management. From 1958 to 1961, he was chief of the International Cooperation Administration's Public Administration Division in Quito, Ecuador. In 1959 he was a consultant on budgetary administration to the Peruvian Finance Ministry.

Weissman was a public administration advisor in Lima from 1961 to 1962 and director of the Office for Institutional Development at the Alliance for Progress from 1962 to 1963. He was Director of the U.S. AID mission to Guatemala from 1963 to 1967, to Colombia from 1967 to 1973, and to Brazil from 1973 to 1975. From 1975 to 1977, he was Director of the Office of Central American Affairs at the State Department.