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- Height6′ 4″ (1.93 m)
- Since 2011, Chuck DeVore has been with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, and is its Chief National Initiatives Officer.
Chuck is a retired lieutenant colonel (military intelligence) in the U.S. Army.
From 2004 to 2010, Chuck DeVore represented almost 500,000 people in the California State Assembly in coastal Orange County. He was the Vice Chairman of the Assembly Committee on Revenue and Taxation and served on the Budget Committee as well.
In 2010, Chuck competed for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in California, earning more than 450,000 votes and raising more than $2.6 million.
Chuck worked in the aerospace industry for 13 years as an executive where he worked on missile defense, communications, intelligence, sensor, and space programs until his election to the California State Assembly in 2004.
Chuck served as a Reagan White House appointee in the Pentagon from 1986 to 1988 where he was a Special Assistant for Foreign Affairs and, for a time, the youngest Reagan appointee in the Pentagon. He later served on staff of a U.S. Congressman.
Chuck is the author of three books, "Crisis of the House Never United - A Novel of Early America"; "China Attacks," a techno-thriller novel about a Chinese invasion of Taiwan; and "The Texas Model: Prosperity in the Lone Star State and Lessons for America."- IMDb Mini Biography By: Texas Public Policy Foundation
- SpouseDiane DeVore(January 9, 1988 - present) (2 children)
- Former California state assemblyman.
- Moved to Texas [2012].
- Retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel.
- Claremont McKenna College graduate.
- Served in the Army National Guard.
- "(The) piecemeal buildup will not defeat the Taliban..." and "...such a strategy expends resources now sorely needed to rebuild our military and retool it for future challenges from a rapidly modernizing People's Republic of China to a revanchist Islamic Republic of Iran." Quote in response to President Barack Obama's 2009 speech on the war in Afghanistan.
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