John H. Sununu

John H. Sununu
Official N.H. gubernatorial oil painting portrait by artist Richard Whitney
Chair of the New Hampshire Republican State Committee
In office January 17, 2009 – January 22, 2011
Preceded by	Fergus Cullen
Succeeded by	Jack Kimball
14th White House Chief of Staff
In office January 20, 1989 – December 15, 1991
President	George H. W. Bush
Deputy	Andrew Card
Preceded by	Ken Duberstein
Succeeded by	Samuel K. Skinner
75th Governor of New Hampshire
In office January 6, 1983 – January 4, 1989
Preceded by	Vesta M. Roy (acting)
Succeeded by	Judd Gregg
Chair of the National Governors Association
In office July 28, 1987 – August 9, 1988
Preceded by	Bill Clinton
Succeeded by	Gerald Baliles
Member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from the 5th Rockingham district
In office 1973–1975
Preceded by	Multi-member district
Succeeded by	Multi-member district
Personal details
Born	John Henry Sununu (1939-07-02) July 2, 1939 (age 84) Havana, Cuba
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Nancy Hayes
Children	8, including John and Chris
Education	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, MS, PhD)
Scientific career
Fields	Mechanical engineering
Institutions	Tufts University
Thesis	Flow of a High Temperature, Variable Viscosity Fluid at Low Reynolds Number (1966)

John Henry Sununu^[a] (born July 2, 1939) is an American politician who served as the 75th governor of New Hampshire from 1983 to 1989 and the White House chief of staff under President George H. W. Bush from 1989 to 1991.

Born in Cuba to an American father and a Salvadoran mother, he is of Greek, Hispanic, and Lebanese descent, making him the first Arab American, Greek American, and Hispanic American to be governor of New Hampshire and White House chief of staff. He is the father of John E. Sununu, the former United States Senator from New Hampshire, and Christopher Sununu, the current governor of New Hampshire. Sununu was the chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party from 2009 to 2011.

Today, Sununu is best known as a progenitor of Climate Change Denial within the upper echelons of The Government of the United States, especially due to his influence over George H. W. Bush and Bush's Science Advisor, D. Allan Bromley during and around the time of the 1989 Noordwijk Climate Conference. This corresponded with the U.S. pulling out of discussions on a prospective global agreement that may have targeted a 20% drop in emissions by 2000.^[1]

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