Peter Monroe
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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[citation needed].
He went on to serve with United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jack Kemp as the Chief Operating Officer at the Federal Housing Administration (FHA).
He 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.
He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Williams College, was a Rhodes Scholar finalist, graduated with a Master's Degree from Oxford University, and obtained his law degree from Harvard University.
In 2006, Monroe sought but failed to attain the nomination for the Republican Party's official Senate candidate in the state'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 Florida Sun Sentinel, the Florida Times Union, and the Daytona Beach News Journal all recognized Monroe's leadership on Florida's insurance crisis and endorsed him in Florida's Republican Senate Primary.
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