Robert L. Bennett, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, announced today that Buford Morrison, formerly superintendent of/the Bureau of Indian Affairs' Horton Agency, Horton, Kans., has been appointed superintendent of the Miccosukee Agency, Homestead, Fla.
He will fill the position left vacant by the recent transfer of Lawrence J. Kozlowski to the post of superintendent of the Jicarilla Agency, Dulce, N.M.
Morrison, a Creek Indian, is a graduate of Stidham High School, Stidham, Okla., and of Haskell Institute, a Bureau of Indian Affairs vocational school in Lawrence, Kans. He is originally from Lenna, Okla.
He joined the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1940 as an assistant (Indian clerk) at the Jicarilla Indian Agency, Dulce, N.M. He was supervisory field representative and area field representative, Anadarko Area, Potawatomi Area Field Office, Horton, Kans., before being named superintendent of the Bureau of Indian Affairs' Horton Agency.
Morrison served in the Army from November 1942 to December 1945 in the European Theater of Operations. He is married and has a step-son.
