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Council on American Politics The Honorable Charles T. Manatt Chuck Manatt served as U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic from 1999-2001. In addition to co-founding and chairing the law firm Manatt, Phelps and Phillips since 1965, and co-founding and chairing the First Los Angeles Bank from 1973 through 1989, Chuck has long been involved in the democracy movement. Ambassador Manatt served as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1981 to 1985. He was the founding Chairman of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. He also served as Vice Chairman of the National Endowment for Democracy, Chairman of the International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES), and served on the board of directors of the Center for International Private Enterprise and the Center for Democracy. He has been actively involved in numerous community and institution-building activities. He is a trustee of the Mayo Clinic Foundation, the Greater Washington, D.C. Board of Trade, the Hugh O’Brien Youth Foundations, and was formerly a trustee of the National Symphony Orchestra at the John F. Kennedy for the Performing Arts. Ambassador Manatt continues his service as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the George Washington University and is also on the Board of Governors of the Iowa State University Foundation Ambassador Manatt received a Bachelor of Science degree from Iowa
State University in 1958 before receiving his J.D. from GW in 1962.
He served as an officer in the U.S. Army and Army Reserves in the
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