United States Ambassador to Senegal Nomination of Walter C. Cartington.

The President today announced that he will nominate Waiter C. Cartington, of Roosevelt Island, N.Y., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Republic of Senegal. He would replace Herman J. Cohen, who is being assigned to the State Department. Carrington has been executive vice president of the African American Institute since 1971.

He was born July 24, 1930, in New York City. He received an A.B. from Harvard College in 1952 and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1955. He served in the U.S. Army from 1955 to 1957.

From 1957 to 1961, Carrington was a partner in the law firm of Maples, Carrington and Rhuland. He was a commissioner of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination from 1957 to 1961. He was with the Peace Corps from 1961 to 1971, serving as country director in Sierra Leone and Senegal and deputy director in Tunisia; deputy director of the Office of Planning and Program Review; deputy regional director for Africa and special assistant to the director of the Peace Corps for equal employment opportunity; and regional director for Africa.

Carrington is a member of the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid of the Agency for International Development. He was chairman of the 1974 United Nations Conference on the African Regional Plan for the Application of Science and Technology to Development.