Charles Glazer

Charles Glazer
Basic facts
Organization:	CLG Investment Company
Role:	Owner
Location:	Greenwich, Conn.
Affiliation:	Republican
Education:	University of Virginia (B.S., finance, 1965)

Charles L. Glazer is an investment banker and former U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador. During the period of transition between the Obama and Trump administrations, Glazer was reported to be in consideration for a high-level appointment in the Trump administration.

Career

Charles Glazer attended the University of Virginia, graduating with a B.S. in finance in 1965. He served for two years in the United States Army in Korea from 1965 to 1967. Then, from 1967 to 1981, Glazer worked for various financial services firms, overseeing investments and wealth management. In August of 1981, he founded C.L. Glazer & Company, an institutional equity brokerage and third party research firm.

Glazer led the company until January 2007 when he was appointed the U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador by President George W. Bush. He left this post in January 2009 when President Barack Obama took office. Since the end of his ambassadorship, Glazer has been the principal owner of another institutional equity firm, CLG Investment Company.

In 2000, he became a member of the University of Virginia Board of Visitors.

Political activity

Glazer has a long history of fundraising for Republican candidates. He was the Connecticut state finance chair for President George H.W. Bush's unsuccessful 1992 reelection campaign. He then served as the finance chair of John Rowland's 1994 and 1998 campaigns for Governor of Connecticut.

Possible Trump appointee (first term)
During the 2016 presidential transition of power, Glazer was reported to be in consideration for a high-level appointment in Donald Trump's (R) first term.
Full list of possible appointees
See also: Donald Trump's Cabinet, 2025

A few years later, Glazer was a major fundraiser and a campaign committee member for both of George W. Bush's successful presidential runs. He has also served on campaign committees for former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Senator Mitch McConnell, and Elizabeth Dole. More recently, Glazer was a top fundraiser for former House Speaker John Boehner and a supporter of House Republicans.

During the 2016 election cycle, Glazer was a delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Connecticut. All 28 delegates from Connecticut were bound by state party rules to support Donald Trump at the convention. As of July 13, 2016, Trump had approximately 1,542 delegates. The winner of the Republican nomination needed the support of 1,237 delegates. Trump formally won the nomination on July 19, 2016. In addition to serving as a delegate in 2016, a joint press release issued by the RNC and the Donald Trump campaign on July 1, 2016, named Glazer and fellow delegate Kevin Moynihan as Connecticut finance chairs for the presidential election. Glazer said of the Republican presidential candidate, “He understands that the sole job of a candidate is to win. I like his instincts. I would be in favor of anybody who would never apologize for the United States of America and would do anything to keep America safe.”

Delegate rules

Charles Glazer
Republican National Convention, 2016
Status:	Delegate
State:	Connecticut
Bound to:	Donald Trump
Delegates to the RNC 2016
Calendar and delegate rules overview • Types of delegates • Delegate rules by state • State election law and delegates • Delegates by state

See also: RNC delegate guidelines from Connecticut, 2016 and Republican delegates from Connecticut, 2016

Delegates from Connecticut to the Republican National Convention were selected by the presidential candidates and approved by the state executive committee of the Connecticut Republican Party in May 2016. Delegates from Connecticut were bound to vote at the convention for the candidate to whom they were allocated based on the results of the state primary election. Delegates were allowed to vote for a different candidate after the first round of voting or if their candidate released them.

Connecticut primary results

See also: Presidential election in Connecticut, 2016

Connecticut Republican Primary, 2016
Candidate	Vote %	Votes	Delegates
Donald Trump	57.9%	123,484	28
John Kasich	28.4%	60,503	0
Ted Cruz	11.7%	24,978	0
Ben Carson	0.8%	1,731	0
Other	1.3%	2,676	0
Totals		213,372	28
Source: The New York Times and Connecticut Secretary of State

Delegate allocation

See also: 2016 presidential nominations: calendar and delegate rules

Connecticut had 28 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, 15 were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's five congressional districts). Connecticut's district delegates were allocated on a winner-take-all basis; the candidate who won a plurality of the vote in a district received all of that district's delegates. If a candidate won more than 50 percent of the statewide primary vote, he or she received all of the state's district delegates.

Of the remaining 13 delegates, 10 served at large. At-large delegates were allocated on a proportional basis; a candidate had to win at least 20 percent of the statewide primary vote in order to be eligible to receive any of the state's at-large delegates. If a candidate won more than 50 percent of the statewide vote, he or she received all of the state's at-large delegates. In addition, three national party leaders (identified on the chart below as RNC delegates) served as bound delegates to the Republican National Convention.

See also

• Republican National Convention, 2016
• 2016 presidential nominations: calendar and delegate rules
• RNC delegate guidelines from Connecticut, 2016
• Republican delegate rules by state, 2016
• Presidential election, 2016
• Presidential candidates, 2016
• Donald Trump potential high-level administration appointments

External links

• Charles Glazer on LinkedIn