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In March 1998, Peter Hannaford established Hannaford Enterprises, a public relations/public affairs consultancy, after having organized and led the public relations division of The Carmen Group, a prominent Washington D.C. government relations firm. Prior to joining Carmen in January 1996, from 1975-95 he headed The Hannaford Company, Inc. (founded as Deaver & Hannaford, Inc.), serving a national and international public relations/public affairs clientele. Before that, he was Assistant to the Governor and Director of Public Affairs for then-Governor Reagan in Sacramento. In that position, he supervised the governor's press office, speech research office, community relations unit and the office of information services (a clearing house for the 45 departments of California's state government.) Mr. Hannaford is perhaps best known for his role in assisting Mr. Reagan during the latter's quest for the White House. From 1975 until his election in 1980, Mr. Reagan was a client of the firm that Peter Hannaford co-founded. In Mr. Reagan's 1976 presidential nomination campaign, Mr. Hannaford was director of issues and research; in the 1980 campaign he was senior communications adviser to Mr. Reagan. Earlier, he spent 17 years in public relations and advertising in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1972, he was the Republican nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives in California's 7th Congressional District. Mr. Hannaford is the author of numerous articles and seven published books: The Reagans: a Political Portrait (Coward McCann, New York, 1983); Talking Back to the Media (Facts on File, New York, 1986; Meynard Publishing, Tokyo, 1990); Remembering Reagan (co-author; Regnery, Washington, DC, 1994); Recollections of Reagan (William Morrow & Company, New York, 1997), My Heart Goes Home: A Hudson Valley Memoir (Purple Mountain Press, Fleischmanns, NY, 1997), The Quotable Ronald Reagan (Regnery, 1998) and The Essential George Washington (Images from the Past, Inc., 1999). Mr. Hannaford has served on the United States Information Agency's Public Relations Advisory Committee (1981-92), the board of trustees of the White House Preservation Fund (1981-89); the Commonwealth Fund's Commission on Elderly People Living Alone (1986-91); the board of directors of the American Spectator Educational Foundation (1984 - ); and the advisory committee of Mount Vernon, George Washington's estate (1990-96). A native Californian, he holds a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley (1954). | 