Jack N. Rumsey has been appointed Superintendent of the Bureau of Indian Affairs' Agency at Wewoka, Oklahoma, Acting Commissioner Raymond V. Butler announced today.
Rumsey, a Creek Indian, succeeds Buford Morrison who retired. The Wewoka Agency, located east of Oklahoma City, is one of six agencies under the Muskogee Area Office of BIA.
A native of Stidham, Oklahoma, Rumsey served in the Army Air Force in World War II and began working for BIA in 1945. He has held positions of increasing importance since then and most recently has been the Administrative Manager of the Pima Agency at Sacaton, Arizona.
Rumsey, 56 was a 1941 graduate in the commercial course of the Haskell Indian Institute at Lawrence, Kansas. He also attended Southeastern Oklahoma State College at Durant and Oklahoma A & M.
