Photo By/Credit
Don Cabrera/U.S. Department of the Interior
Date Shot/Created
10/30/1974Media Usage Rights/License
Public Domain
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Lynn A. Greenwalt (center) being sworn in as the Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service by Secretary of the Interior Rogers C.B. Morton (right), in the Director's office at the Department of the Interior Building, Washington, D.C. Mr. Greenwalt's wife Judy stands beside him. Assistant Secretary of the Interior Nathaniel "Nat" Reed appears on the left. October 30, 1974.
Mr. Greenwalt had been serving as Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service/Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife since the previous October; this ceremony came about due to Act of Congress in April 1974 redesignating the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and provided that it's Director be a presidential appointee subject to confirmation by the Senate. Previously, the Director had been appointed by the Secretary of the Interior.
Mr. Greenwalt had been serving as Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service/Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife since the previous October; this ceremony came about due to Act of Congress in April 1974 redesignating the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and provided that it's Director be a presidential appointee subject to confirmation by the Senate. Previously, the Director had been appointed by the Secretary of the Interior.