Department of Housing and Urban Development Nomination of Horace Dicken Cherry To Be an Assistant Secretary.

The President today announced that he will nominate Horace Dicken Cherry, of Forest Heights, Md., to be an Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. He would replace William B. Welsh, resigned.

Cherry has been director of the National Center for Municipal Development since 1969 and also represents New Orleans, Birmingham, and Columbia, S.C., as their liaison with Congress and Federal agencies.

He was born March 22, 1928, in Dallas, Tex. He received a B.A. from Wabash College in 1949 and an M.A. from the University of Chicago in 1952.

From 1955 to 1965, Cherry was an assistant professor of education at Baylor University, and from 1958 to 1963, he was also director of the Center for Foreign Service Studies at Baylor. From 1962 to 1967, he was a Texas State representative.

From 1965 to 1967, Cherry was administrative assistant to Senator Ralph Yarborough. From 1967 to 1969, he was a congressional service officer in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Model Cities and Governmental Relations.