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Digitized from Box 1 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 20, 1974
Office of the White House Press Secretary
THE WHITE HOUSE
The President today announced his intention to nominate Mrs. Shirley Temple
Black, of Woodside, California, to be Ambassador to Ghana. She will
succeed Fred L. Madsel, who has held the position since September 1971.
She was born on April 23, 1928, in Santa Monica, California. Mrs. Black
was graduated from Westlake School in 1945, and was a Fellow, College of
Notre Dame, Belmont, California. She was an actress, playing leading roles
in more than forty motion pictures and fifty one-hour television shows. She
served as a Member, Board of Directors, Bay Area Educational Television
Association, San Francisco.
Mrs. Black has served as a Member, United States Citizens' Space Task
Force, Office of the Vice President, Washington, D. C. She was a candidate,
Republican Nomination, United States Congress and she served as
U.S. Representative, Twenty-Fourth Session of the United Nations General
Assembly, 1969. She was Deputy Chairman, U.S. Delegation, Preparatory
Committee on the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment,
Stockholm, Sweden, 1970-72, and served as a Delegate, USSR-USA Joint
Commission, Moscow, Cooperative Treaty on the Environment, 1972.
Mrs. Black was Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Council on
Environmental Quality, Executive Office of the President, 1972-74.
Her memberships include: Co-founder and Member of the Executive
Committee, International Federation of Multiple Sclerosis Societies;
Member, Board of Directors: Del Monte Corporation, Walt Disney
Productions, World Affairs Council of Northern California, and National
Wildlife Federation; Member: United States Commission for UNESCO;
Sierra Club; Audubon Society; Wilderness Society; Planning and Conservation
League (California); California Tomorrow, Inc. ; Commonwealth Club of
California; and League of Women Voters; Member, Board of Trustees,
Institute for Study of Economic Systems, Washington, D. C.
She is married to Charles A. Black and they have three children.
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