Charles D. "Chuck" Jordan is an American architect and government official. He served as Director of the Office of Transition for the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands from November 3, 1986, to September 30, 1991.United States Congress (1991). Department of the Interior and related agencies appropriations for 1991. The office was based in

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.United States Congress (1989). Insular areas budget request for fiscal year 1989.

Life and career

Jordan was born in

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and raised in

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. He graduated from the School of Architecture at

California State Polytechnic University California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona, CPP, or Cal Poly"Cal Poly" may also refer to California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo in San Luis Obispo. See the ''California State Polytechnic University, Pomo ...

in San Luis Obispo in 1972. He joined the

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as a volunteer, working for the Yap District Planning Office. After two years in

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and a return to California, Jordan returned to Yap in 1978 as the Yap State Planner. In 1981 he moved to Saipan as Director of the Office of Planning and Statistics for the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. There he oversaw grants for the

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, Federal Aviation Agency and the

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. Jordan also coordinated the closure of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. He also managed expenditure of US$400 million of Capital Improvement Project funding in Republic of Palau,

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and the

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. Jordan opened his own architectural practice in 1991. Jordan later served as President of Wendy's Saipan, Inc., a franchisee of

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. After Jordan designed and opened one restaurant in Saipan in 1996, it filed for bankruptcy in 2001.Staff report (July 18, 2012)
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/ref> Jordan later worked as a special advisor for CIP Management.Calindas, Marconi (April 30, 2005)
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'' Saipan Tribune'' In 2002 he went to work with Governor Juan Babauta as his Special Advisor for Capital Improvement Project Management. He was later named a Partner with RIM Architects and was named Principal in charge of their Saipan office.U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (2009)
26th Pacific Islands Environment Conference: Complete Speaker and Facilitator Biographies.
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References

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