The Committee on Nominations of the Alumni Association announced yesterday that thirteen Harvard graduates had been chosen as candidates for the five vacancies on the Board of Overseers, which will occur by normal retirement this June.

The 13 candidates have been chosen from leading graduates, representing four different states and the District of Columbia. Six are from Massachusetts.

The following are the group from which the five vacancies will be filled by a postal ballot to all graduates this spring: Albert F. Bigelow '03, of Brookline, lawyer, and Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of the Massachusetts State Legislature; James M. Morton, Jr. '91, of Fall River, Judge of the United States Circuit Court, and former president of the Harvard Alumni Association; Robert P. Patterson, LL.B. '15, of New York City, Judge of the United States District Court, Southern New York District; Charles Warren '89 of Washington, D. C., lawyer and former Assistant Attorney General of the United States; Chase Mellen, Jr. '20, of New York City, banker and President of the Republican County Committee for New York City; Joseph L. Valentine '98 of Chicago, Illinois, banker and former president of the Associated Harvard Clubs; Samuel Cabot '06, of Boston, manufacturing chemist; George S. Franklin '02, of New York City, lawyer; Charles E. Perkins '04, of Santa Barbara, California, former railroad official; Harrison Tweed '07, of Montauk, New York, lawyer; Francis A. Harding '09, of Chestnut Hill, manufacturer; Sinclair Weeks '14, of Newton, Mayor of Newton; Robert Cutler '16, of Brookline, lawyer; George S. Franklin '02, of New York City, lawyer.

The five members whose six-year terms normally expire in June 1934 are; Homer Gage '82, of Worcester, Joseph Lee '83, of Boston, Jesse Isidor Straus '93, of New York City, Mark Sullivan '00, of Washington, and Leverett Saltonstall '14 of Boston