Hannaford, Peter

Biographical Chronology

• 1932 September 21: Born, Glendale, California
• 1954: AB, University of California
• 1954 - 1956 : First Lieutenant, Signal Corps, U.S. Army
• 1956: Account executive, Helen A. Kennedy advertising firm
• 1957 - 1962 : Vice president, Kennedy-Hannaford, Inc., San Francisco and Oakland, California
• 1962 - 1967 : President, Kennedy-Hannaford, Inc. (name changed to Kennedy, Hannaford & Dolman, Inc., 1965)
• 1967 - 1969 : Pettler and Hannaford, Inc.
• 1968 - 1969 : National president, Mutual Advertising Agency Network
• 1969 - 1972 : Vice president, Wilton, Coombs & Colnett, Inc.
• 1972: Representative nominee, United States Congress
• 1972 - 1973 : Chairman, California Governor's Consumer Fraud Task Force
• 1973: President, Hannaford & Associates, Oakland, California
• 1974: Assistant to Governor of Californis – Director, Public Affairs, Governor's office, Sacramento, California
• 1975 - 1995 : Chairman of the Board, Hannaford Company, Inc.
• 1981 - 1989 : Trustee, White House Preservation Fund
• 1981 - 1992 : Trustee, Public Relations Advertising Commission, USIA
• 1983: Author, The Reagans: A Political Portrait
• 1986: Author, Talking Back to the Media (Japanese edition, 1990)
• 1986 - 1991 : Member, The Commonwealth Fund's Commission on Elderly People Living Alone
• 1991 - 1996 : Member, Advertising Commission, Mount Vernon
• 1994: Co-author, Remembering Reagan
• 1996: Managing Director, Franklin Firm, Washington, D.C.
• 1997: Editor, My Heart Goes Home: A Hudson Valley Memoir by Thomas Sweet Lossing
• 1999: Compiler and editor, The Essential George Washington
• 2001: Compiler and editor, The Quotable Calvin Coolidge

From the guide to the Peter D. Hannaford Papers, 1949-2009, (Hoover Institution Archives)