Reagan Makes Choice for Top Banking Post
Associated Press
WASHINGTON —
President Reagan said Thursday that he would nominate Houston attorney Robert Logan Clarke to be Comptroller of the Currency, the chief regulator of the nation’s banks.
Clarke, 43, is director of a Houston bank and specializes in banking matters with a Houston law firm.
If confirmed by the Senate, he would succeed C. Todd Conover, who had announced in January that he was resigning to return to private industry.
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