Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall has announced the appointment of Henry B. Taliaferro, Jr., of Oklahoma, as an Associate Solicitor to head the Division of Indian Affairs in the Office of the Solicitor in Washington, D. C.
Taliaferro, 36, is a native of Shawnee, Okla., who graduated from high school in Oklahoma City and holds a bachelor of arts and a law degree from the University of Oklahoma.
From August 1967 until recently, he was a staff member of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission). For about a year prior to that time, he organized, staffed and inaugurated a Neighborhood Legal Services program for Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, under a grant from the Office of Economic Opportunity, heading a staff of 23 persons.
Taliaferro practiced law in Oklahoma City from 1956 to 1966, first as an associate and later as a partner, in the firm of Monnet, Hayes, Bullis, Grubb and Thompson, with experience in corporate and individual business counseling, considerable trial and appellate advocacy, oil and gas law, and probate and estate planning.
He is a member of phi Beta Kappa and served as managing editor of the Oklahoma Law Review. Active in civic work, he has held office with the Oklahoma Symphony Society, Travelers Aid Society, Oklahoma County Bar Association, Oklahoma Rehabilitation Association, State Mental Health Association, Rotary Club, and fraternal groups. He has been active also in Episcopal Church activities. He is married to the former Janet Stewart Myers, and they have three children.
