FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION

(December 1960)

EARL W. KINTNER, Chairman, born November 6, 1912, at Corydon, Ind., and grew up on farm in Gibson County, Ind., near Princeton. Attended public schools Princeton, Ind.; A.B. DePauw University, Greencastle, Ind., 1936; J. D. Indiana University School of Law, Bloomington, Ind., 1938. General law practice, Princeton, Ind., 1938-44; city attorney, Princeton, 1939-42; Prosecuting Attorney, 66th Indiana Judicial Circuit, 1943-44, reelected 1944 and 1946 but resigned due to military service. U.S. Navy, ensign to lieutenant, 1944-46; Amphibious Forces, 1944–45; 1946-48 Deputy U.S. Commissioner, United Nations War Crimes Commission, serving as cochairman of committee reviewing allied war crimes matters. Federal Trade Commission 1948, trial attorney on antimonopoly; 1951, legal adviser; 1953-54, delegate to President's Conference on Administrative Procedure, Chairman, Committee on Hearing Officers; 1953-59, General Counsel; sworn in June 9, 1959 as member of Commission for unexpired term ending September 1960; designated Chairman by President Eisenhower June 11, 1959. President Federal Bar Association, 1956-57, 1958-59; President Foundation of Federal Bar Association, 1957; President Federal Bar Building Corporation, 1958; vice chairman, Section of Administrative Law, American Bar Association, 1958-59; member Council, Section of Antitrust Law, ABA, 1958- -; member Executive Committee, New York State Antitrust Law Section, 1957; Adjunct Professor New York University School of Law, 1958; admitted to practice Indiana and District of Columbia, U.S. Supreme Court and other bars. Member Cosmos, Capitol Hill, and National Press Clubs, Washington, D.C. Member American Legion; DAV (life member); Federal Club of Washington; Torch Club; Masons (Shriner and Past Master); Phi Delta Phi; Pi Sigma Alpha; Delta Sigma Rho; Sigma Delta Chi, Washington Professional Chapter; American Bar Association; American Judicature Society, and other legal organizations. Republican; member St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Washington; married to Valerie Patricia Wildy and has two sons.

ROBERT THOMPSON SECREST, Democrat; born January 22, 1904, at Senecaville, Ohio. Educated public schools, Senecaville, Ohio; A.B., Muskingum College, New Concord, Ohio; LL.B., Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C. Work completed for M.A. in Political Science at Columbia University; graduate Naval School of Military Government, Columbia University; completed course British School of Civil Affairs, Wimbledon, England. Principal, Senecaville High School, Senecaville, Ohio, 1926-31; superintendent of schools, Murray City, Ohio, 1931-32. Member Ohio State Legislature, 1931-32; Member of Congress, 1933–42. Resigned Congress, July 1942, to join Navy. Served to March 1, 1946, rank of commander, in England, Africa, Italy and 1 year on Admiral Nimitz's staff in the Pacific as Military Government Officer; reelected to Congress, 1949 and served until September 27, 1954; resigned to become a member of the Federal Trade Commission. Former post commander and life member American Legion Post 747, Senecaville, Ohio. Life member AMVETS and Regular Veterans Association. Member of 40 and 8 and VFW. Former member Board of Visitors, U.S. Naval Academy; vice president, National Rivers and Harbors Congress; Americanism Committee, American Legion; National Rehabilitation Committee, Regular Veterans Association; Joint Committee on the Library; member and treasurer, Northwest Territory Celebration Commission; Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise Committee; National Archives Council; National Archives Trust Fund Board; Smithsonian Gallery of Art Commission. Married Virginia Bowden, November 28, 1929; three children.

SIGURD ANDERSON, born January 22, 1904, at Arendal, Norway; came to the United States at the age of 3; educated in the rural schools of South Dakota; graduated from the High School Department of Canton Lutheran Normal, Canton, S. Dak.; attended the South Dakota State College at Brookings, S. Dak., 1925-26; received A.B. degree, cum laude, from the University of South Dakota, Vermillion, S. Dak., in 1931; LL.B. degree, cum laude, College of Law, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, S. Dak., 1937. For a brief period of time taught school in the rural schools of South Dakota, Junior High School, Rapid City, S. Dak., and Senior High School, Webster, S. Dak. Following graduation from law school in 1937, began the practice of law at Webster. In 1938 and 1940, was elected States attorney of Day County; in 1941, was appointed assistant attorney general for South Dakota. In 1942, enlisted in the United States Navy and reported for duty early in 1943; served in the Navy for 3 years with duty both State-side and in the Southwest Pacific areas; held rank as lieutenant commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve. In 1946, returned to the private practice of law and was elected attorney general of South Dakota; served 4 years as attorney general. In 1950, was elected Governor of South Dakota, and reelected in 1952. Appointed member of the Federal Trade Commission in 1955. While serving as Governor of South Dakota, was chairman of the Missouri River States Committee, member of the Missouri Basin Interagency Committee, and chairman of the Inland Governors Council. Member of the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars; is vice chairman of the Committee on American Sovereignty of the V.F.W. In 1953, received LL.B. degree (honorary) from Yankton College, Yankton, S. Dak., for services to education. Member of Masonic Lodge, Consistory, Commandery, Chapter, Council and Shrine. Also member Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Theta Phi, and Pi Kappa Delta. Is a member of the Lutheran Church. Member of the Republican Party, Izaak Walton League, South Dakota Bar Association and American Bar Association. In 1937, married Vivian Walz of Vermillion, S. Dak., and has infant daughter, Kristin Karen.

WILLIAM C. KERN, lawyer; born Indianapolis, Ind., August 9, 1903; son of late Senator and Mrs. John W. Kern of Indiana; married Mary Florence Malott September 24, 1929; one child Mary Florence Kern; education, B.S., Princeton University; M.A., Columbia University; LL.B., Harvard Law School; admitted to Indiana Bar in 1927 and engaged in general civil practice of law in Indianapolis 1927 to 1940; served as assistant prosecuting attorney of Marion County, Ind., and also as municipal attorney advising the Board of Zoning Ap peals of Indianapolis; trial attorney, Wage and Hour Division, U.S. Deparment of Labor, 1940-41; trial counsel, FTC, specializing in antimonopoly field, 1941-54, except for military service later noted; Assistant Director, Bureau of Litigation FTC 1954-55; appointed member of FTC by President Eisenhower for term of 7 years and entered upon duties September 26, 1955; commissioned captain in Army in 1943 and served as civil affairs officer with military occupational duties in the Philippines and in Japan, being discharged with rank of major in 1946; member of American and Federal Bar Associations, Princeton Club of Washington, Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity, and Chevy Chase and Metropolitan Clubs of Washington, D.C.; Democrat; Washington residence, 2800 Woodley Road, NW.

EDWARD K. MILLS, JR., 54, Republican, was nominated by President Eisenhower to fill the unexpired term of Edward T. Tait, and was sworn in as Commissioner on November 1, 1960, but his appointment was never confirmed by the Senate. He was Deputy Administrator of the General Services Administration from May 1956 to January 1960; also served for limited periods as Acting Commissioner to GSA's Transportation and Public Utilities Service and as Acting Commissioner of the agency's Public Building Service; was awarded GSA's Distinguished Service Award in July 1959; in 1939 and 1940 was chief of the opinion section in the General Counsel's office of the Civil Aeronautics Board. Born in Morristown, N.J., served as mayor of that city from 1949 to 1950; member of the Board of Aldermen there from 1936 to 1939. Graduate of Princeton and the Yale Law School; admitted to the New Jersey Bar in 1931, and for the next 7 years was associated with a law firm in Newark; was active in corporation and railroad reorganization work and served as secretary of

bondholders protective committees for the Northern Ohio and the Central of Georgia railroad companies; was a partner in the Morristown law firm of Mills, Jeffers, and Mountain from 1940 until his appointment to GSA; during World War II, was a pilot with the Army Air Force, rising to the rank of major and earning the Air Medal. Served as a member of the board and president of the Morristown Airport Corp., director of Morristown Trust Co., vice president and director of the Boniface Printing Co. (now L. P. Thebault Co.) in Morristown, and trustee for Neighborhood House and other charitable institutions; is a director of the United Givers Fund, Washington, D.C., and a member of the American Bar Association, Federal Bar Association and Morris County Bar Association. An Episcopalian; member of the Metropolitan Club and Capitol Hill Club of Washington, the Princeton Club of New York, the Colonial Club of Princeton, the Morristown Club, the Nantucket Yacht Club, and Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity. Married the former Shirley Burks of Brownsville, Texas, and has two daughters, Shirley and Katina.