Christian Archibald Herter Jr. (January 29, 1919 – September 16, 2007) was an American politician, diplomat, academic, and vice president of Mobile Oil Corporation.

Herter joined the Boston law firm of Bingham, Dana & Gould, where he became an authority on helping U.S. companies trying to expand into the international market In 1950, he was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives as the representative for West Newton.

[1] "I found it difficult to represent Newton," he told the Boston Globe, "while I was almost unanimously regarded as spokesman for my father.

[3] After working with Nixon, Herter became the general counsel to the Foreign Operations Administration, an overseas aid program then led by former Minnesota Governor Harold E. Stassen.

Herter was a founding member of the coalition of business, labor, and neighborhood leaders who worked to improve New York's slums.

[1] In 1970 President Nixon appointed Herter the deputy assistant secretary of state for environmental and population affairs.

[1] In 1983, President Ronald Reagan appointed him deputy United States commissioner on the International Whaling Commission.

In 2007, Herter died at his home in Washington D.C. of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at the age of 88 years.