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= Peter A. Thalheim, (Major, ret. USAR, JAG Corps) =   Peter A. Thalheim (born May 20, 1960) filed to run for Governor of the State of Connecticut in June, 2017. Previously thereto, he has been a homebuilder, attorney, Realtor, U.S. Army Reserve officer, father and husband. Early Life

Peter A. Thalheim was born in Fuerth, Bayern, West Germany (the same town as Henry Kissinger) on May 20, 1960 and immigrated to the United States on May 13, 1963. The family moved to Old Greenwich, Connecticut in the summer of 1963.Thalheim attended the Greenwich public school system from K-12. He received his B.A. in modern European History and a minor in German from Middlebury College, Middlebury Vermont, 1982. He supplemented his studies for his B.A. at the Stamford branch of UCONN in the summers of 1978 and 1979. After studying law for one year at Case Western Reserve University, School of Law in Cleveland, Ohio he transferred and obtained his J.D. from Duke University School of Law in 1985.

Work

After graduating from law school, Thalheim joined Lunney & Crocco in New York City and work there from fall, 1985 until spring of 1988 in their commercial litigation practice.

After travel to the Far East, Australia, New Zealand, China and the Soviet Union, Thalheim opened a law practice in 1989 in Old Greenwich, Connecticut, which comprised of commercial litigation, general corporate law, wills, and real estate practice in Connecticut and New York. He ran this practice until 2006. Around 1995 he commenced the construction of new homes, custom homes, additions and renovations under the name Harbor Builders to present. He has built homes in Connecticut, New York and Massachusetts.

Miltary Service

Thalheim volunteered for the United States Army Reserve Judge Advocate General’s Corp in 1989 at age 29. He received a direct commission as a first lieutenant. He served under the 4th JAG Detachment in the Bronx, New York, amongst other detachments, from 1989 to 1995 and achieved the rank of Major. He was then listed on the Individual Ready Reserve from 1995-2008. Thalheim completed the correspondence courses required for promotion to captain and major and graduated from the Judge Advocate General’s School, U.S. Army, Charlottesville, Virginia, Officer Advanced Course. During his service, he completed annual training numerous times in the Panama Canal Zone as well in Germany.

Professional Licenses

Admitted to the bars of the State of Connecticut in 1985 and the State of New York in 1986. Also admitted to the United States District Courts for the District of Connecticut and the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. Obtained real estate salesperson license from the State of Connecticut in 2010 and joined William Raveis Real Estate from 2010 through 2016, whereafter he joined Coldwell Banker Real Estate in 2016 in Greenwich, Connecticut.

 

Republican Efforts

Whilst at Middlebury College, Thalheim was chairperson of the Middlebury College Republican Club, 1981-1982, which was supplemented by the position of Chairperson of the Vermont College Republicans. During his junior year, Thalheim founded the Middlebury College Republican Newsletter for national and international issues, complete with guest column for Democrats and letters to the editor. Whilst working in New York City, Thalheim drafted proposed enterprise zone legislation for the City of New York on behalf of the Freedom Republicans, which was submitted to the City Council.

Later in 1999, Thalheim submitted an amicus curiae brief (friend of the court brief) in support of Town of Greenwich in Leydon v. Town of Greenwich. The suit sought free access to the town’s beaches versus the concept of community as explained in part by Alexis de Tocqueville in Democracy in America. Thalheim was sanctioned by the trial judge for petitioning the court for redress of grievances by filing the friend of the court brief. The judge refused to identify court rules the judge believed had been violated prior to the hearing or at hearing itself. Only after finding Thalheim guilty did the judge identify rules he thought had been violated. Thalheim appealed sanction to Connecticut Supreme Court for, amongst other claims, deprivation of due process rights for judge’s refusal to identify rule(s) alleged to have been violated prior to or at the hearing. Supreme Court buried due process claim and upheld fellow member of the Hartford Club, choosing the state over the citizen. New York Bar disciplinary panel yawned when they heard grounds for sanction.

Connecticut Governor’s Race 2018 - Inclusion of African- and Hispanic-American and Young Voters

In June, 2017, Thalheim registered with the Connecticut State Elections Enforcement Commission to run for Governor, 2018. He did not stop at the fiction of an exploratory committee. In August, 2017, Thalheim posted his campaign website at www.SaveConnecticut.com with the core message of ”Gratitude, Common Humanity and Liberty.” The campaign is about creating jobs and educational choices in Connecticut and addressing the financial imbalances of the State, which are critical, but also about resisting political correctness, identity politics and campus intolerance. The campaign has in excess of fourteen policy papers ranging from the Connecticut economy; right-sizing the state government; solving the DACA and illegal alien issues; pushing for a sensible environmental policy to see what in the Paris Climate Accord can be adopted, while protecting the interests of American workers; Choice-and-Voice education reform; 50-for-20 pension reform: prison sentencing reform: and, most-importantly, unity.

www.CheckAmerican.com

In 2010, Thalheim created and posted the website CheckAmerican.com. It is for the proposition that there is no color of an American, but we are a people, both native-born and immigrant. Therefore, whenever a government form asks a citizen for their race, creed, color or ethnicity, the first category available to be checked is “American,” with “other” at the end of the list. It is an individual’s choice how they see themselves. It is not a choice for the government. This is meant to support our unity, which builds community at the local, state and national levels.

Substantive Foreign Travel

Besides numerous stays in France and German, Thalheim traveled to Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Chongqing, Wuhan, Beijing, China, Ulan Bator, Outer Mongolia, Irkutsk, Khabarovsk, Novosibirsk, Moscow, Petrograd, Soviet Union, East Berlin, Germany in August and September, 1985 to visit communist dictatorships, while they were still around.

Thalheim again traveled to the Far East in July-November 1988 to visit, Hong Kong, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Sarawak, Burma, Sumatra, Java, Bali, Australia and New Zealand. He made it a point to again travel through China and the Soviet Union on the way back to Europe by train.

A more recent trip in November, 2015 was to Dublin, Berlin, London and Paris The stay in Paris coincided unfortunately with the ISIS attack on the Bataclan Night Club and other venues on November 13, 2015.

Personal Life

He was married from 1994 to 2011 and lived in Riverside and Old Greenwich, Connecticut. They have three daughters. Thalheim has been a lifelong Republican. He likes the outdoors of sailing, skiing, swimming and hiking in the woods.

He played second row and loose head prop in collegiate rugby at Middlebury College, Duke University and on a town team in Cleveland, Ohio. He won a fifth place for Duke University at a Southeastern Collegiate Ski Conference giant slalom race.

Thalheim has maintained a keen interest in national and international politics throughout his life and has used his basic language skills in German, French and Russian to facilitate his travels, communication and work.