THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
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For Immediate Release
January 8, 2001
PRESIDENT CLINTON NAMES ESTEBAN TORRES TO THE
FANNIE MAE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President Clinton announced today his intention to appoint Esteban E.
Torres as a member of the Fannie Mae Board of Directors.
The Honorable Esteban E. Torres, of West Covina, California, is a
former member of the United States House of Representatives. First elected
in 1982, Congressman Torres served eight terms, representing California?s
34th Congressional District until his retirement at the end of 1998.
Prior to his service in Congress, Congressman Torres in 1968 founded a
community development corporation in East Los Angeles dedicated to fighting
poverty by building and financing low-income housing, facilitating small
business development and encouraging community economic development.
Always active in the labor movement, he became Co-Director of the United
Auto Workers? International Affairs Department in 1974. He was appointed
U.S. Ambassador to UNESCO by President Carter in 1977 and joined the White
House senior staff as a Special Assistant to the President and Director of
the Office of Hispanic Affairs in 1979.
During his 16 years in Congress, he was a prominent member of a number
of committees, to include the House Appropriations Committee and the House
Banking Committee, and played a key role in several pieces of legislation
involving federal housing policies, international trade, environmental
affairs and urban crime issues. Following his retirement from government
service, Congressman Torres has been active in consulting and the
development of private business ventures.
Congressman Torres attended East Los Angeles Community College and
California State University at Los Angeles. He also studied Economics at
the University of Maryland and International Labor at American University,
and holds an Honorary Doctorate from the National University in San Diego,
California.
Fannie Mae is a New York Stock Exchange company and the largest
non-bank financial services company in the world. It operates pursuant to
a federal charter and is the nation?s largest source of financing for home
mortgages. Since 1968, Fannie Mae has provided nearly $2.9 trillion of
mortgage financing for over 35 million families.
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