David Harrison McIntyre
Personal Biography
Dave McIntyre is a fifth generation Texan who still owns land at the family homestead in Grimes County, in US Congressional District 17.
His parents moved from the Brazos Valley to Houston during World War II, and Dave was born and raised there. He entered West Point, and then the military, from Houston. Dave’s parents returned to the College Station area upon his father’s retirement, in 1992 and Dave followed when he retired from the military.
Dr. McIntyre holds a BS in Engineering from West Point, an MA in English and American Literature from Auburn University, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Univ. of Maryland. He is a graduate of the Army War College and National War College.
Dave and Cathy McIntyre have been married for 36 years. She received a M.Ed (with certificate in English as Second Language) from Regent University, and teaches English to international students at Texas A&M. She recently relinquished her three year leadership as Chair of the Board of the Hope Pregnancy Center of Brazos Valley in College Station, Texas.
Their older son, a graduate of TAMU and the Bush School, works for an oil company in Louisiana. He served seven years in the US Army, to include duty on the DMZ in Korea and in Iraq. His wife, a former Air Force captain, is a graduate of the Georgetown Arab Studies program, speaks Arabic and Farsi, and served on Ambassador Bremer’s staff in Baghdad. They have three children.
The McIntyres' younger son is an Air Force pilot who has been deployed five times to combat zones. He is now training on a new aircraft with Air Force Special Operations Command. His wife, an SMU graduate who speaks Japanese, keeps the home and their two small children during his frequent deployments.
Dave and Cathy attend the First Baptist Church in College Station, Texas. Dave was ordained a deacon in the Lake Ridge Baptist Church, Lake Ridge, Virginia, in 1996, where he taught adult Sunday School for 7 years. Before that, he taught Sunday School to high school students in Hawaii for 3 years.
Dave’s father, one son, and six nieces and nephews are graduates of Texas A&M University. His sister attended Baylor.
His media work includes scores of national appearances on FOX, ABC, MSNBC, CNN’s Crossfire, CNBC, CSPAN, The History Channel, and the US State Department’s "Dialogue" series. Internationally, he has been on Australian, British, Canadian, Egyptian, French and German television. During the Iraq War, he was the military commentator for the State Department’s Voice of America’s News Line television program, broadcast to American embassies worldwide.
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