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Chase Untermeyer
United States Ambassador to Qatar
In office
December 7, 2004 – August 19, 2007
PresidentGeorge W. Bush
Preceded byMaureen E. Quinn
Succeeded byJoseph LeBaron
Director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office
In office
1989–1991
PresidentGeorge H. W. Bush
Preceded byRobert H. Tuttle
Succeeded byConstance Horner
Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Manpower and Reserve Affairs
In office
December 1984 – April 1988
PresidentRonald Reagan
Preceded byChapman B. Cox
Succeeded byKenneth Bergquist
Member of the Texas House of Representatives
from the 83rd district
In office
January 11, 1977 – January 13, 1981
Preceded byLarry Vick
Succeeded byAshley Smith
Personal details
Born (1946-03-07) March 7, 1946 (age 78)
Long Branch, New Jersey, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
EducationHarvard University (BA)

Charles Graves Untermeyer, known as Chase Untermeyer (born March 7, 1946), is a former United States ambassador to Qatar. He was given a recess appointment by U.S. President George W. Bush and assumed the position on August 2, 2004. After three years, he was succeeded by Joseph LeBaron.

A native of Long Branch, New Jersey, Untermeyer graduated in 1964 from Memorial High School in Houston, Texas and, later (1968), from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. While at Harvard, he worked in the 1966 congressional campaign of future U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush of Houston.[1]

He entered the United States Navy after Harvard under the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps program. He served during the Vietnam War as an officer aboard the Pacific Fleet destroyer USS Benner (DD-807) and as aide and flag lieutenant to the late Rear Admiral Draper L. Kauffman, Commander of U.S. Naval Forces in the Philippines.[2]

Returning to Houston, Untermeyer was a reporter for the Houston Chronicle and executive assistant to the county judge of Harris County, Texas. In 1976, he was elected as a Republican to the Texas House of Representatives from Houston, serving until 1981, when he went to Washington.[3] There he served as executive assistant to then-Vice President George H.W. Bush, 1981-1983; Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Installations and Facilities, 1983-1984; Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, 1984-1988; assistant to the President and Director of the Office of Presidential Personnel, 1989-1991; and Director of the Voice of America, 1991-1993.

Returning once more to Houston, Untermeyer was Director of Public Affairs for Compaq from 1993 to 2002, and Vice President for Government Affairs and professor of public policy at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston from 2002 to 2004.

His part-time public positions include: member and chairman of the United States Naval Academy Board of Visitors, 1993-1996; member of the Houston Port Commission, 1995-1998; member of the board of directors of National Public Radio (NPR), 1996-1998; member of the Texas State Board of Education, 1999-2003, serving as chairman from 1999-2001; member of the board of the Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico (Fideicomiso de Conservación de Puerto Rico), 2002-2004; member of the Defense Health Board, 2008-2009; founding board member of the Episcopal Health Foundation, 2013-2016; and founding chairman of the Qatar-America Institute, 2017-2019. He is currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and chairman of the board of Humanities Texas, the state humanities council.

He married the former Diana Cumming Kendrick of Sheridan, Wyoming, in 1990. They have a daughter, Ellyson Chase Untermeyer (born in 1993).

Works

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  • When Things Went Right: The Dawn of the Reagan-Bush Administration; Chase Untermeyer; Texas A&M University Press (August 8, 2013); ISBN 1623490138
  • How Important People Act: Behaving Yourself in Public; Chase Untermeyer; Bright Sky Press (February 1, 2015); ISBN 1939055962
  • Inside Reagan's Navy: The Pentagon Journals; Chase Untermeyer; Texas A&M University Press (April 7, 2015); ISBN 1623492122
  • Zenith: In the White House with George H. W. Bush; Chase Untermeyer; Texas A&M University Press (August 24, 2016); ISBN 9781623494360

References

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  1. ^ "Ex-Staffers Who Live In Texas Will Travel With Bush Casket To D.C." NPR.org. Retrieved 2019-06-13.
  2. ^ "Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps - Famous Graduates". www.nrotc.navy.mil. Retrieved 2019-06-13.
  3. ^ "Legislative Reference Library | Legislators and Leaders | Member profile".
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Texas House of Representatives
Preceded by
Larry Vick
 Member of the Texas House of Representatives
from the 83rd district
1977–1981 		Succeeded by
Ashley Smith
Government offices
Preceded by Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Manpower and Reserve Affairs
1984–1988 		Succeeded by
Political offices
Preceded by Director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office
1989–1991 		Succeeded by
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by United States Ambassador to Qatar
2004–2007 		Succeeded by
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