FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  August 19, 1988


            FTC CHAIRMAN OLIVER NAMES DONALD S. CLARK
            SECRETARY OF THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION



     Federal Trade Commission Chairman Daniel Oliver has
appointed Donald S. Clark as Secretary of the FTC.

     Mr. Clark, 36, joined the Commission in 1977 as a staff
attorney in the Bureau of Consumer Protection.  From 1980 to 1983
he was a staff attorney in the Bureau of Competition where he
prepared extensive legal and economic arguments for portions of
the trial and appeal briefs in the General Foods case. 

     In 1983 he became an attorney advisor to then-Commissioner
George W. Douglas, where he helped Commissioner Douglas prepare
his opinions for the Commission in ITT Continental Baking Co. and
B.A.T. Industries, Ltd.  In late 1985, Mr. Clark served briefly
as a special assistant to former Chairman James C. Miller III
until he left the Commission.  Mr. Clark then stayed on as
special assistant under Acting Chairman Terry Calvani handling a
variety of investigative and adjudicative matters, until 1986.

     Mr. Clark left the Commission in 1986 to work as a staff
attorney in the Appellate Section of the Antitrust Division at
the Department of Justice, where he prepared drafts of amicus
briefs for the Supreme Court and for the Fourth Circuit Court of
Appeals.  He rejoined the FTC in February 1987 as Assistant to
the Director of the Bureau of Competition.  In April 1987 he
joined the office of Chairman Daniel Oliver as an attorney
advisor.

     Mr. Clark received his M.A. and B.A. degrees in economics
from Stanford University.  He received his J.D. degree in 1977
from the University of California at Los Angeles.

     Mr. Clark published an article on horizontal restraints in
1983, which appeared in the Wisconsin Law Review.










     Mr. Clark is a native of California and resides in
Springfield, Va., with his wife and two children.


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