1. Christopher Beauregard Emery was born on August 1,1957 and is an American author and former government official.
22 Facts About Christopher Emery
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Christopher Emery was chief enterprise architect of the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Christopher Emery is the author of the memoir White House Usher: Stories from the Inside.
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Christopher Emery was a dairy farmer and attorney in Ellicott City, Maryland, as well a thoroughbred horse breeder later in life.
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Christopher Emery was later a French language teacher at Glenelg Country School, as well as a freelance French and German translator.
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Christopher Emery's parents were married in 1949 and moved from Cooksville, Maryland, to the historic 18th-century residence, Howard Lodge in 1959.
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Christopher Emery's father remarried to actress Jennifer Bassey until his death in 1991.
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Christopher Emery began his career at the White House as a computer specialist after answering a job advertisement in The Washington Post.
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Christopher Emery served as an usher in the Reagan Administration beginning in January 1986.
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In so doing, Christopher Emery worked in tandem with the First Family, the White House staff, the chief usher, the press office, the Secret Service, and military leaders.
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Christopher Emery gave personal tours of the White House to private guests including some notable figures such as: Barbra Streisand, Dana Carvey, Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, Julia Roberts, Tom Hanks, Julie Andrews, Johnny Carson, and Melanie Griffith.
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Christopher Emery was the first-ever White House usher to be fired.
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Christopher Emery has earned the praise of Republican Council Chairman Charles C Feaga and Allan H Kittleman.
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In June 1996, Emery publicly clashed with Democratic Councilman C Vernon Gray over his alleged misuse of county funds and resources to aid in his campaign for a position with the National Association of Counties.
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Weeks later, Gray wrongfully accused Christopher Emery of leaking NAOC campaign letters to The Baltimore Sun.
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Christopher Emery was vindicated by the Howard County Police Department; Gray subsequently found his letters in a different file in his office.
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Effective December 4,1998, Christopher Emery resigned when Democrats regained the majority on the Howard County Council.
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Christopher Emery was promoted to chief enterprise architect of the AOC beginning in 2007.
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Christopher Emery contributed, along with other information enterprise professionals from the federal government, private sector, and academia, to the publication of The Integrated Enterprise Life Cycle: Enterprise Architecture, Investment Management, and System Development.
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In 2010, Christopher Emery served as the director of portfolio governance in the Office of the Chief CIO for the US Department of Homeland Security.
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Christopher Emery served as the chief enterprise architect for the US Securities and Exchange Commission from 2015 to January 2020.
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Christopher Emery is a past resident of Laurel, Maryland, and Washington, DC He has one daughter and three stepchildren.