Nomination of Everett E. Bierman To Be United States Ambassador to Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands

The President today announced his intention to nominate Everett E. Bierman, of Virginia, as Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador to the Solomon Islands. He would succeed Paul Fisher Gardner.

Mr. Bierman began his career in 1948 as an information officer for the Department of Agriculture. In 1951 he left Agriculture to assume the information directorship of the National 4-H Foundation in Washington, DC. He served there until 1959, when he went to Fort Wayne, IN, as public relations director for the Central Soya Co. Since 1967 Mr. Bierman has been minority staff director for the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the United States House of Representatives. He served in the United States Army, 1942-1946.

Mr. Bierman graduated from Purdue University (B.S., 1948) and the American University (M.A., 1958). He is married to the former Joyce Elizabeth Lear, and they have four children. Mr. Bierman was born August 16, 1924, in Hastings, NE.