William J. Whalen III

William J. Whalen
William Whalen
Born	(1940-07-18)July 18, 1940 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Died	September 28, 2006(2006-09-28) (aged 66) Greenbrae, California
Occupation	Career National Park employee

William Jerome Whalen III (July 18, 1940 – September 28, 2006) was the 10th director of the United States National Park Service. He joined Park Service in 1965 as a Job Corps counselor and advanced to posts in National Capital Parks and Yosemite before becoming superintendent of Golden Gate National Recreation Area in 1972. His experience in the burgeoning urban parks field contributed to his appointment as director in July 1977, yet the most significant event of his tenure was President Jimmy Carter's proclamation of much Alaska wilderness as national monuments in 1978, doubling the area under NPS jurisdiction. Friction with park concessioners led to congressional calls for Whalen's removal in 1980, and Secretary of the Interior Cecil D. Andrus returned him to Golden Gate. He left the NPS in 1983.

A native of Burgettstown, Pennsylvania, Whalen joined the National Park Service as a job corps counselor in 1965 and became well known in Washington, D.C., as manager of the Summer in the Parks Programs. He was deputy superintendent at Yosemite National Park and then managed all NPS areas in the Bay Area of San Francisco, including Golden Gate National Recreation Area. As Director of the NPS he saw the national parks double in area. Management of an expanded system including vast new parks in Alaska challenged his best talents. Whalen has returned to San Francisco Bay Area as general superintendent of Golden Gate National Recreation Area. He died of a heart attack in 2006.^[1]^[2]^[3]

References

↑ http://articles.latimes.com/2006/oct/06/local/me-whalen6
↑ http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/hisnps/NPSHistory/direct.htm
↑ 65th Anniversary, National Park Service, August 25, 1981

Government offices
Preceded by Gary Everhardt	Director of the National Park Service 1977 – 1983	Succeeded by Russell E. Dickenson

Directors of the National Park Service of the United States

Stephen Mather Horace M. Albright Arno B. Cammerer Newton B. Drury Arthur E. Demaray Conrad L. Wirth George B. Hartzog, Jr. Ronald H. Walker Gary Everhardt William J. Whalen III Russell E. Dickenson William Penn Mott, Jr. James M. Ridenour Roger G. Kennedy Robert Stanton Fran P. Mainella Mary A. Bomar Jonathan Jarvis

National parks of the United States

Acadia American Samoa Arches Badlands Big Bend Biscayne Black Canyon of the Gunnison Bryce Canyon Canyonlands Capitol Reef Carlsbad Caverns Channel Islands Congaree Crater Lake Cuyahoga Valley Death Valley Denali Dry Tortugas Everglades Gates of the Arctic Glacier Glacier Bay Grand Canyon Grand Teton Great Basin Great Sand Dunes Great Smoky Mountains Guadalupe Mountains Haleakalā Hawaiʻi Volcanoes Hot Springs Isle Royale Joshua Tree Katmai Kenai Fjords Kings Canyon Kobuk Valley Lake Clark Lassen Volcanic Mammoth Cave Mesa Verde Mount Rainier North Cascades Olympic Petrified Forest Pinnacles Redwood Rocky Mountain Saguaro Sequoia Shenandoah Theodore Roosevelt Virgin Islands Voyageurs Wind Cave Wrangell–St. Elias Yellowstone Yosemite Zion

List of national parks of the United States (by elevation)

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William J. Whalen III

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