Delmas Nucker was born in
Terre Haute, Indiana. He attended Brown's Business College in Galesburg, Illinois. He married Catherine ("Katy") Moore and together they had one son, William James, in 1927. He worked at
the Independent Oil Company from 1927 until 1942. Throughout the Great Depression they lived in Pennsylvania in various locations, chiefly Altoona. Mr. Nucker served with the
Office of Price Administration, organizing rationing boards in the central third of Pennsylvania during World War II. At the close of the war, from 1943 to 1947 Mr. Nucker became an administrator for the newly-formed United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). He recruited personnel for foreign offices of the mission, travelling to England, France, Belgium, Holland, and ultimately China. He joined the
United States Department of the Interior. Later he was appointed Assistant to the General Manager of the
Alaska Railroad in
Anchorage, Alaska. Mr. Nucker served as Director,
United States Agency for International Development mission to
Afghanistan from 1963 to 1967. ==See also==