Maine native Barton up for State Dept. post
President Obama has nominated former Maine PR executive and Maine Democratic Party Chairman Frederick Barton to a U.S. State Department post.
Barton has been nominated to serve as assistant secretary for conflict and stabilization operations and coordinator for reconstruction and stabilization, according to a press release from U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud. Barton, currently a senior adviser to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, served as Democratic Party chairman during the late 1980s. He was president of Portland public relations firm Barton & Gingold from 1983 to 1994. He's also served as the U.S. representative to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations in New York, and was a senior adviser and co-director of the Post Conflict Reconstruction Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.
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