- Peter Monroe
:"Disambiguation: Peter Monroe is also the name of a fictional protagonist in the
Bunnicula book series."Peter Monroe (born August 25, 1943), was a Republican U.S. Senate Candidate in the state of Florida. He is a real-estate developer and an attorney. He was an appointee by the first President Bush to a post steering the federal government's bailout of the savings and loan industry cite news
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United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jack Kemp as the Chief Operating Officer at theFederal Housing Administration (FHA).Peter Monroe is best known for serving as President and CEO of the
Resolution Trust Corporation - the Federal agency charged with overseeing the $400 billion clean-up of the Savings and Loan disaster.Earlier in his career, Monroe held a senior housing position on the immediate staff of HUD Secretary
George Romney .Peter Monroe graduated
Phi Beta Kappa fromWilliams College , was aRhodes Scholar finalist, graduated with aMaster's Degree fromOxford University , and obtained hislaw degree fromHarvard University .In 2006, Peter Monroe sought but failed to attain the nomination for the Republican Party's official Senate candidate in Florida's primary elections, losing to
Katherine Harris .During his campaign, Monroe implored the Florida Congressional delegation to trade oil drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico for a federal catastrophic insurance program intended to spread natural disaster risk throughout the US. The
Palm Beach Post , the South FloridaSun Sentinel , theFlorida Times Union , and theDaytona Beach News Journal all recognized Monroe's leadership on Florida's insurance crisis and endorsed him in Florida's Republican Senate Primary.References
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Florida United States Senate election, 2006 External links
* [http://petermonroe.net/ Peter Monroe Website]
* [http://petermonroe.com/ Peter Monroe]
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