Hugh Quay Parmer (born August 3, 1939) is a lawyer, University professor, former international humanitarian executive, and a Democrat politician in Fort Worth, Texas. He is in charge of both homes in the Texas State Legislature, at the Fort Worth City Council, and as mayor of Fort Worth. Parmer also serves as head of the US Agency for Humanitarian Response Bureau for International Development where he is responsible for the US emergency response to over 80 natural and manmade natural disasters around the world. He followed it with seven years as president and CEO of the American Refugee Committee, a US-based humanitarian aid organization with 1,600 employees in 14 disasters and conflicts affecting countries around the world.
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Initial years
In 1957, Parmer graduated from Polytechnic High School in Fort Worth. In 2009, he was inducted into a "Wall of Fame" by the Fort Worth Independent School District, the public school council of Fort Worth public schools. Parmer holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut and a master's degree in Political Science from the University of Texas at Arlington in Arlington, Texas. He led Parmer Marketing Company, Inc., from 1969 to 1988.
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Political career
At the age of twenty-three, Parmer served as the youngest legislator at the Texas Representative Council for a single term from 1963 to 1965. He subsequently became a member of the Fort Worth City Council in 1975 and became Fort Worth Mayor in 1977. His position for two years until his defeat in 1979 in a fierce contest with Woodie Woods.
Parmer was then elected state senator in 1982, where he defeated Andy Andujar, the husband of State Senator Betty Andujar, the first Republican woman to serve in the state Senate. Parmer served on the Senate committee of (1) State Affairs, (2) Health and Human Resources, (3) Chairman of Intergovernmental Relations, (4) Chairman of the Final Senate Committee on Hunger in Texas in 1985, and (5) Chairman of the Senate Caucus Democrats in 1987. In 1989, Parmer was one of five senators to serve as President of Pro Tempore, who had preceded the position as his regional colleague, Bob McFarland of Arlington.
In the US Senate race in 1990, Parmer raised 1,429,986 votes (37.4 percent), but Gramm won, 2,302,357 (60.2 percent).
In 1988, at the age of forty-nine, Parmer was accepted into law practice in Texas. He picked up and passed the State Bar exam without attending law school under state law that long allowed the replacement of the legislative service year for law school hours. From 1991 to 1998, Parmer was a shareholder manager of law firm Parmer, Archer, Young and Steen.
Parmer ran unsuccessfully to the United States House of Representatives. In 1984, as a new state senator, he lost a Democratic nomination in District 6 to former Country Representative Dan Kubiak of Rockdale. Kubiak was later defeated by Republican Joe Barton, who had held the chair since then. Barton replaces the transformed Phil Gramm of the Democratic Party, who was first elected to the US Senate that year to colleagues Ron Paul and Henry C. Grover and Democratic State Sen. Lloyd Doggett of Austin. In 1996, as a Democratic candidate in District 12, Parmer surveyed 41 percent of the vote against Republican Kay Granger, also a former mayor of Fort Worth.
Career of humanity
In 1998 Parmer was appointed by US President Bill Clinton as Assistant Administrator of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) in charge of the Bureau of Humanitarian Response. Parmer unanimously confirmed to post by Republican controlled US Senator. During his tenure at USAID, Parmer was largely responsible for US humanitarian operations during the Kosovo War. After the election of President George W. Bush in 2000, Parmer was elected president of the US Refugee Committee, an international humanitarian aid organization with programs in 14 conflict-affected countries around the world. In 2008, he was elected to the board of directors of Interaction, the largest association of aid and private development organizations based in the US.
Recent Activity
In 2008, Parmer was named researcher at Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, formerly named Humphrey Institute, named after former US Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, and located at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota. , where he explores issues related to disaster management.
Parmer is currently a professor at the University of North Texas at Denton, Texas, Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, and Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. He teaches senior alumni and scholars in the areas of International Aid, Humanitarian Intervention and Refugee Affairs.
In 2010, Parmer's political involvement included a donation to defeat US Rep. Chet Edwards of Texas, former political rival Phil Gramm, and Earl Pomeroy of North Dakota. In 2008, he contributed to US Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination. [12]
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