Nomination of Roland R. Vautour To Be an Under Secretary of Agriculture and a Member of the Board of Directors of the Commodity Credit Corporation

June 23, 1987

The President today announced his intention to nominate Roland R. Vautour to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Small Community and Rural Development and to be a member of the Board of Directors of the Commodity Credit Corporation. He would succeed Frank W. Naylor, Jr., in both capacities.

Mr. Vautour is currently a State director of the Farmers Home Administration in Montpelier, VT. Prior to this he was the owner of Sterling Realty in Jeffersonville, VT, 1969 - 1981.

Mr. Vautour graduated from the University of New Hampshire (B.S., 1952). He was born January 20, 1929, in Berlin, NH. Mr. Vautour is married, has four children, and resides in Jeffersonville, VT.