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Kleppe, Thomas S. [Biography]
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Digitized from Box 15 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SEPTEMBER 9, 1975
Office of the White House Press Secretary
THE WHITE HOUSE
The President today announced his intention to nominate Thomas S.
Kleppe, of Bismarck, North Dakota, to be Secretary of the Interior.
He will succeed Stanley K. Hathaway who resigned effective on the
appointment and qualification of a successor.
Since January 1971, Mr. Kleppe has been Administrator of the Small
Business Administration. He was elected to the 90th Congress from
North Dakota's Second Congressional District in November 1966. After
his election to the 91st Congress in 1968, he served as a member of
the House Committee on Agriculture and the House Republican Policy
Committee. From 1950 to 1954 he was Mayor of Bismarck.
In 1946, Mr. Kleppe joined the Gold Seal Company in Bismarck, North
Dakota and became Treasurer of the firm and served as President and
Treasurer from 1958 to 1964. He became Vice President of J.M. Dain
& Company, an investment banking firm headquartered in Minneapolis,
Minnesota, serving until 1966.
Mr. Kleppe was born on July 1, 1919, in Kintyre, North Dakota, and
attended Valley City Teachers College. He served in the United States
Army as a warrant officer from 1942 to 1946.
He is married to the former Glendora Loew and they have four children.
They reside in Kensington, Maryland.
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