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President to Nominate Major General Harold R. Parfitt to be Governor of the Canal Zone [Position Appointments and Resignations]
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President to Nominate Major General Harold R. Parfitt to be Governor of the Canal Zone [Position Appointments and Resignations]
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Digitized from Box 8 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MA RCH 5, 1975
Office of the White Hous e Press Secretary
THE WHITE HOUSE
The President today announced his intention to nominate Major General
Harold R. Parfitt, of Coaldale, Pennsylvania to be Governor of the Canal
Zone. He will succeed Major General David S. Parker who is retiring.
Major General Parfitt is presently Commanding General, United States
Army Engineer Center/Commandant, United States Army Engineer School.
From December 1969 to August 1973, he was Division Engineer, United
States Army Engineer Division, Southwest, Dallas, Texas. He was
Commanding Officer, 20th Engineer Brigade in Vietnam from November
1968 to November 1969. In June 1965 he became Lieutenant Governor of
the Canal Zone and Vice President of the Panama Canal Company in
Balboa Heights, Canal Zone, serving until September 1968. He was Deputy
and later District Engineer of the Engineer Division, South Atlantic, in
Jacksonville, Florida from August 1962 to May 1965.
Major General Parfitt was born on August 6, 1921, in Coaldale, Penns ylvania.
He received his B.S. degree from the United States Military Academy in
1943 and his M. S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in
1948. He attended the United States Army Command and General Staff
College and the Canadian National Defense College.
Major General Parfitt is the recipient of the Distinguished Service Medal,
the Purple Heart and the Legion of Merit, with Oak Leaf Cluster.
Major General Parfitt is married to the former Patricia Scully and they
have two children.
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