Recently appointed Pyongyang bureau chief for Associated Press, based between Tokyo and Pyongyang.
Mr. Cordray was appointed the bureau's director by President Obama last week during a Senate recess, after Republicans resisted bringing his nomination to the floor for a vote.
After J. Edgar Hoover was appointed the bureau's director, in 1924, he sent a team of undercover operatives, including a Native American agent, to the Osage reservation.
Eight years ago, when I was 33 and living in Istanbul, I met Paul, a foreign correspondent, who had recently been appointed the bureau chief for Reuters in Turkey.
Leonhardt was appointed Washington bureau chief in 2011, in one of Abramson's first decisions as the Times' executive editor.
Currently, each president appoints a new bureau director.
After General Electric bought NBC, Jack Welch, G.E.'s chairman, personally appointed Russert Washington bureau chief, and it was a couple of years after that that he became a panelist on "Meet the Press" and, later, the host, replacing Garrick Utley.
He has also worked as an editor at Women's Wear Daily, Fairchild's flagship daily trade publication, and in 1998 was appointed the Paris bureau chief of W, Fairchild's consumer fashion magazine.
Due to the distance of the Bureau of Forestry in Manila from the Forest School in Los Baños (about 64 kilometers), directors of the bureau appointed foresters-in-charge to manage the school, a practice which continued until 1957.
Republicans are intent on destroying the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; Mr. Obama should try to recess appoint his nominee to lead the bureau, Richard Cordray, whom Republicans recently filibustered.
