PERSON: John Sununu

U.S. State Government of New Hampshire

Governor

John Henry Sununu (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.

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