United Nations Nomination of H. Carl McCall To Be Alternate U.S. Representative for Special Political Affairs.

The President today announced that he will nominate H. Carl McCall, of New York City, to be the Alternate Representative of the United States for Special Political Affairs in the United Nations, with the rank of Ambassador. He would replace Richard Petree, who has been appointed Deputy U.S. Representative in the Security Council.

McCall is a New York State senator. He was born October 17, 1935, in Boston, Mass. He received an A.B. from Dartmouth College in 1958 and an M. Div. from Andover Newton Theological School in 1963. He served in the U.S. Army in 1959.

From 1965 to 1972, McCall was project director for the Taconic Foundation. From 1967 to 1968, he was deputy administrator of the New York City Human Resources Administration. From 1971 to 1975, he was executive director of the Florence and John Schumann Foundation. He has been a New York State senator since 1974.

McCall is an ordained minister of the United Church of Christ and a preaching minister at Metropolitan Community United Methodist Church in Harlem. He is secretary for the Urban Church of the United Church of Christ and serves as a consultant to the Ministerial Interfaith Association of Harlem.

McCall is chairman of the New York City Council Against Poverty, the Citizen's Voter Education Committee of New York State, the editorial board of the New York Amsterdam News, and the National Association of Minority Broadcasters. He is president of Inner City Broadcasting Corp. and serves on the advisory board of the African American Institute.