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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 10, 1974
Office of the White House Press Secretary
THE WHITE HOUSE
The President today announced the appointment of John O. Marsh, Jr. as
Counsellor to the President. Mr. Marsh has been Assistant to the Vice
President for Defense Affairs since January 1974.
From 1973 to 1974, he was Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative
Affairs. Mr. Marsh, 47, was elected to four successive terms in the
U.S. House of Representatives as a Virginia Democrat. He served as a
member of the Appropriations, Veterans Affairs, and Interior and Insular
Affairs Committees. Mr. Marsh, a graduate of Washington and Lee Law
School, has practiced law from 1952 until his election to Congress in 1962
and resumed the practice of law in Washington after retiring voluntarily
from the House in 1970 to practice law.
Mr. Marsh was named "Outstanding Young Man in Virginia" by the Virginia
Junior Chamber of Commerce in 1959. He also received the Distinguished
Service Medal of the American Legion's Department of Virginia. A
graduate of the Infantry Officer Candidate School, Mr. Marsh is presently
a Lieutenant Colonel in the Virginia National Guard.
Mr. Marsh is married to the former Glenn Ann Patterson of Kenbridge,
Virginia. They live in Arlington, Virginia.
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