Alfonso Everette MacIntyre (February 3, 1901 – June 5, 1997)[1] was a member of the United StatesFederal Trade Commission from 1961 to 1973, serving as acting chair from August 8, 1970, to September 14, 1970.[2]
Born nearBurlington, North Carolina, MacIntyre received aB.A. in political science from theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, followed by aJ.D. from theGeorge Washington University Law School.[1]
He became a trial lawyer for the FTC in 1930, eventually becoming chief of the FTC antitrust trials division. From 1955 to 1961, he worked for theUnited States House Committee on Small Business.[1] In 1961, PresidentJohn F. Kennedy appointed MacIntyre to the Federal Trade Commission, and in 1968, PresidentLyndon B. Johnson reappointed MacIntyre for another term.
In 1968, MacIntyre dissented from an FTC recommendation to ban cigarette advertising on radio and television, though he denied his disagreement with the ban was influenced by his roots in North Carolina, a tobacco producing state.[3] MacIntyre served as acting chair of the commission from August 8, 1970, to September 14, 1970, and was succeeded in the role byMiles Kirkpatrick.[2]
In 1971, PresidentRichard Nixon issued an executive order to permit MacIntyre to remain on the Commission beyond the mandatory retirement age of 70, and MacIntyre thereafter remained in that office until 1973.[1]
MacIntyre's wife, Reita, died in 1995, after 66 years of marriage. MacIntyre died two years later inBoca Raton, Florida, at the age of 96.[1]
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