Birth Name: John Henry Sununu
Place of Birth: Havana, Cuba
Date of Birth: July 2, 1939
Ethnicity: Arab [Palestinian, Lebanese]
John H. Sununu is an American politician. A Republican, he was Governor of New Hampshire, from January 6, 1983 to January 4, 1989, Chair of the National Governors Association, from July 28, 1987 to August 9, 1988, White House Chief of Staff, from January 20, 1989 to December 15, 1991, and Chair of the New Hampshire Republican Party, from January 17, 2009 to January 22, 2011. He was New Hampshire’s first Arab-American governor.
John was born in Havana, Cuba, while his father was there on a business trip. He is the son of Victoria (Dada) and John Saleh Sununu, an international film distributor. His father was raised in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. His mother was born in El Salvador. His parents were Arabs of the Orthodox religion, with roots Jerusalem and Beirut. John visited Beirut as a child in the late 1940s. He grew up in New York, and graduated from the La Salle Military Academy on Long Island.
John is married to Nancy Hayes. The couple has eight children, including politician John E. Sununu (John Edward Sununu), who has been a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Hampshire, from January 3, 1997 to January 3, 2003, and a U.S. Senator from New Hampshire, from January 3, 2003 to January 3, 2009; and politician, businessperson, and engineer Chris Sununu (Christopher Thomas Sununu), who has been Governor of New Hampshire, since January 5, 2017.
John speaks Spanish fluently.
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