Chip Flowers
| Chipman L. Flowers, Jr. | |
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| Former State Treasurer & Co-Chair of the National Democratic State Treasurers | |
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In office January 2, 2011 – January 5, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Velda Jones-Potter |
| Succeeded by | Ken Simpler |
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27 December 1974 (age 42) Honolulu, Hawaii |
| Political party | Democratic Party |
| Spouse(s) | Megan Lallier |
| Residence | Boston, Massachusetts |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown University, Georgetown University Law Center, Harvard University, Harvard Kennedy School |
| Occupation | Politician; Attorney; Business Owner |
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Chipman "Chip" L. Flowers, Jr. (born December 27, 1974 in Honolulu, Hawaii), a resident of Boston, Massachusetts, is an American politician, attorney and business owner who served as the former treasurer of the state of Delaware and Co-Chair of the National Democratic State Treasurers. A member of the Democratic Party, Flowers became the first African American to win a statewide election in Delaware when he was elected treasurer in November 2010 at the age of 35 (which made Flowers Delaware's youngest statewide elected official). He took office on Jan. 2, 2011 and completed his term on January 5, 2015. He was responsible for the State of Delaware's $2 billion portfolio and made over $55 million for the state during his term, despite the nation's challenging economic climate, by undertaking major financial reforms to the Delaware State Treasury.
He is currently the President and Managing Member of The Flowers Counsel Group, LLC, one of the region's largest minority-owned corporate law firms (he founded the firm in 2006) that specializes in corporate procurement, transactions and mergers & acquisitions for Global and Fortune 500 clients and colleges & universities. The firm has offices in Massachusetts and Delaware. Flowers also serves as Deputy Legal Counsel of the Massachusetts Democratic Party under James Roosevelt, Jr. (grandson of former U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and Co-Chair of the Democratic National Committee's Rules Committee).
In October 2014, Flowers married Megan Elizabeth Lallier at the historic Quechee Inn at Marshland Farms in Vermont and the couple has one child.
Flowers is the youngest child of Ltc. Chipman Flowers, Sr. a retired Army officer, and C. Jean Johnson Flowers, a former teacher and guidance counselor for the U.S. Department of Defense Dependent Schools. Flowers' father was commissioned by General Daniel "Chappie" James, the nation's first African-American four-star general officer in the United States.
As the son of a military officer, Flowers traveled extensively in his youth, attending public schools in Dallas, Texas, Lawton, Oklahoma and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended middle and high school in Italy while his father was stationed overseas. He is a graduate of Vicenza American High School in Vicenza, Italy. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1996, earning a bachelor's degree in economics, and then attended Georgetown University, where he earned his Juris Doctor degree and a Master of Business Administration in 2000. While attending Georgetown, Flowers worked at the A. Philip Randolph Institute, the Congressional Joint Economic Committee and in the White House Office of Political Affairs during the Clinton administration.
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