Federal Trade Commission chair (born 1944)
David A. Clanton (born May 31, 1944)[ 1] was the acting chair of the Federal Trade Commission from March 4, 1981, to September 25, 1981.[ 2]
Clanton received a B.A. from Andrews University in 1966, followed by a J.D. from Wayne State University Law School in 1969.[ 1] [ 3] In June 1969, Clanton became a legislative assistant to Michigan Senator Robert P. Griffin .[ 1] He gained admission to the bar in Michigan the following year,[ 3] and served as minority staff counsel for the United States Senate Committee on Commerce from April 1971 to January 1975.[ 1] After a brief stint as legislative assistant to the assistant minority leader of the U.S. Senate, Clanton was nominated by President Gerald Ford to a seat on the Federal Trade Commission.[ 1] President Ronald Reagan named Clanton acting FTC chair in 1981, pending selection of a nominee for the position.[ 4]
References
^ a b c d e "Announcement of Intention To Nominate David A. Clanton To Be a Commissioner and Intention to Withdraw the Nomination of Thomas Sowell To Be a Commissioner " (July 20, 1976), in Presidential Documents: Gerald R. Ford, 1976 , Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Volume 12, Issues 27-39 , p. 1188.
^ List of Commissioners, Chairwomen, and Chairmen of the Federal Trade Commission: 1915-2018 (as of November 2018) .
^ a b "David A. Clanton" . Martindale. Retrieved February 18, 2021 .
^ Bernice Rothman Hasin, Consumers, Commissions, and Congress: Law, Theory, and the Federal Trade Commission (1987), p. 194.
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