The President today announced that he will nominate Peter N. Teige, of Menlo Park, Calif., to be a Federal Maritime Commissioner for a term expiring June 30, 1985.
Teige has been vice president for legal affairs of World Airways, Inc., since 1969.
He was born July 9, 1919, in Chicago, Ill. He received a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin in 1941 and an LL.B. from Harvard University Law School in 1947. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II.
From 1947 to 1954, Teige was an attorney with the San Francisco firm of McCutchen, Thomas, Griffith, & Greene. From 1954 to 1969, he was vice president and general counsel of American President Lines, a major U.S. flag steamship operator headquartered in San Francisco.
Jimmy Carter, Federal Maritime Commission Nomination of Peter N. Teige To Be a Commissioner. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/249840