Background
Born to wealthy parents, Horace "Hap" Flanigan, a banker, and Aimee (née Magnus) Flanigan, a granddaughter of Adolphus Busch, co-founder of Anheuser-Busch, in Manhattan, Peter Flanigan was raised Catholic.
Born to wealthy parents, Horace "Hap" Flanigan, a banker, and Aimee (née Magnus) Flanigan, a granddaughter of Adolphus Busch, co-founder of Anheuser-Busch, in Manhattan, Peter Flanigan was raised Catholic.
He graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University and joined the investment firm of Dillon, Read & Company.
He served as a United States. Navy carrier pilot during World World War World War II
Flanigan, a committed Republican, who had supported Nixon over John F. Kennedy in the 1960 United States. presidential election, was named Nixon"s deputy campaign manager in 1968. He served as a presidential assistant until 1972. Such was Flanigan"s influence and support for big business that Ralph Nader labeled him as the "mini-president".
He resigned from the Nixon administration in June 1974.
Diplomacy
Flanigan was nominated as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (to Spain) by Nixon"s successor, President Gerald Ford, however the nomination, which was made on September 17, 1974, was stalled in the Senate and he never received his commission. Flanigan"s first wife, Brigid (née Snow), died in 2006.
The couple had five children, one of whom, Sister Louise Marie Flanigan, is a Roman Catholic nun. Flanigan, a widower, married an Austrian national, Dorothea von Oswald, in 2008.
The couple had homes in Wildenhag, Oberösterreich, Austria, and in Purchase, New New York
Flanigan died, aged 90, at a hospital in a small town outside Salzburg, Austria, from undisclosed causes.
Member President Economics Policy Advisory Board, Washington, 1981-1988. Chairman of the Board consultant Portsmouth Abbey School, 1988-1993. Chairman Student-Sponsor Partnership, 1985-1992.
Member Links Club (New York City), Blind Brook Club (Purchase, New York), Clove Valley Club (Union Vale, New York.
Married Brigid Snow; children: Brigid Snow, Sheila Magnus, Timothy Palen, Megan Adams, Robert White.