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Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is the President of the United States and a former junior United States Senator from Illinois. Obama is the first African American to be elected President of the United States. He is a graduate of Columbia College of Columbia University and Harvard Law...
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Rob Nabors
Rob Nabors (born 1971) is a U.S. government official who serves as Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Obama Administration.
Son of Army Major General Robert L. Nabors, he was born in Fort Dix, NJ and lived in Arizona,...
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- Jan 2009
Robert Gibbs
Robert L. Gibbs (born March 29, 1971) is an American political consultant and the current White House Press Secretary. Gibbs was the communications director for U.S. Senator Barack Obama and Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. Gibbs, who has worked...
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- Jan 2009
Lawrence Summers
Lawrence Henry Summers (born November 30, 1954) is an American economist and the Director of the White House's National Economic Council for President Barack Obama. Summers is the Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University's Kennedy...
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Christina Tchen
Christina M. "Tina" Tchen (simplified Chinese: 陈远美; traditional Chinese: 陳遠美,pinyin: Chén Yuǎnměi), is an American lawyer and the Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement.
Tchen was born in the U.S. to Chinese immigrants who fled...
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- Jan 20, 2009
Phil Schiliro
Phil Schiliro is the current Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs in the Barack Obama Administration. He served as Democratic Chief of Staff for the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and as chief of...
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- Jan 20, 2009
Ron Kirk
Ronald "Ron" Kirk (born June 27, 1954) is the 16th United States Trade Representative, serving in the Obama administration. He served as mayor of Dallas, Texas from 1995 to 2002; he also ran for the United States Senate in 2002.
Born in Austin,...
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- Jan 20, 2009
David Axelrod
David M. Axelrod (born February 22, 1955) is an American political consultant based in Chicago, Illinois. He is best known as a top advisor to President Barack Obama, first in Obama's 2004 campaign for the U.S. Senate in Illinois and later as chief...
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- Jan 20, 2009
Leon Panetta
Leon Edward Panetta (born June 28, 1938) is the current Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. An American Democratic politician, lawyer, and professor, Panetta served as President Bill Clinton's White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997...
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- Jan 20, 2009
Rahm Emanuel
Rahm Israel Emanuel (born November 29, 1959) is an American politician currently serving as White House Chief of Staff to President Barack Obama. He served previously as Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing...
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- Jan 20, 2009
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (pronounced /ˈhɪləri daɪˈæn ˈrɒdəm ˈklɪntən/; born October 26, 1947) is the 67th United States Secretary of State, serving within the administration of President Barack Obama. She was a United States Senator for New York...
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- Jan 21, 2009
Peter R. Orszag
Peter Richard Orszag (born December 16, 1968) is an American economist who is currently the 37th Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Barack Obama. He was Director of the Congressional Budget Office when nominated.
Orszag...
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- Jan 20, 2009
Carol M. Browner
Carol Martha Browner (born December 16, 1955) is an American lawyer, environmentalist, and businesswoman, who is Director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy in the Obama Administration. Browner previously served as...
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Tom Vilsack
Thomas James "Tom" Vilsack (born December 13, 1950) is an American politician, a member of the Democratic Party, and presently the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. He served as the 40th Governor of the state of Iowa. He was first elected in 1998 and...
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Arne Duncan
Arne Duncan (born November 6, 1964) is an American education administrator and currently United States Secretary of Education. Duncan had previously served as CEO of the Chicago Public Schools.
Duncan was raised in Hyde Park, Chicago, where his...
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Jim Messina
Jim Messina (born 1969) is the White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations for president Barack Obama. Prior to taking up that post he was Director of Personnel for the transition team.
Messina served as national Chief of Staff for Sen. Obama's...
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Greg Craig
Gregory Bestor "Greg" Craig (born March 4, 1945) is a Washington-based lawyer and current White House Counsel to President Barack Obama. He has represented numerous high-profile clients, including John Hinckley, Jr., who was acquitted of the...
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Samantha Power
Samantha Power (born September 21, 1970, in Ireland) is an Irish American journalist, writer, academic, and government official. She is currently affiliated with the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of...
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Jackie Norris
Jackie Norris (born 1970/71) was President Barack Obama's Iowa State Director during the 2008 presidential election. Norris served as First Lady Michelle Obama's Chief of Staff during the early months of the Obama presidency. On June 4, 2009, the...
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Cecilia Muñoz
Cecilia Muñoz (b. July 27, 1962) has served as the Director of Intergovernmental Affairs at the White House since January 21, 2009. A longtime civil rights advocate, she worked as Senior Vice President for the Office of Research, Advocacy and...
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Desirée Rogers
Desirée Glapion Rogers (born June 16, 1959) is an American public relations executive. In November 2008 she was selected by Barack Obama's office as the White House Social Secretary for the incoming administration, the first African American to...
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Mark Lippert
Mark W. Lippert (born February 28, 1973) is the former Chief-of-Staff for the National Security Council in the Obama administration.
Lippert grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. He attended Stanford where he received his degree in international relations....
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Daniel Pfeiffer
Daniel Pfeiffer (born Dec. 24, 1975, Wilmington, Del.) is an American political worker and currently Barack Obama's deputy communications director. He was previously a member of Obama's presidential transition team.
In 2000, he was a spokesperson...
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Pete Rouse
Peter M. Rouse (born 1946) is Senior Adviser to U.S. President Barack Obama, having served as a co-chairman of the Obama-Biden Transition Project.
Rouse had been chief of staff to South Dakota Senator Tom Daschle, the former majority leader, and was...
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Pete Rouse
Peter M. Rouse (born 1946) is Senior Adviser to U.S. President Barack Obama, having served as a co-chairman of the Obama-Biden Transition Project.
Rouse had been chief of staff to South Dakota Senator Tom Daschle, the former majority leader, and was...
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Shaun Donovan
Shaun L.S. Donovan (born January 24, 1966) serves as United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the cabinet of President Barack Obama. Prior to this he headed the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development. On...
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- Jan 20, 2009
Shaun Donovan
Shaun L.S. Donovan (born January 24, 1966) serves as United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the cabinet of President Barack Obama. Prior to this he headed the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development. On...
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Edward Montgomery
Edward Montgomery was appointed Director of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers by President Barack Obama on March 30, 2009.
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Kal Penn
Kalpen Suresh Modi (Gujarati: કલ્પેન સુરેશ મોદી, born April 23, 1977), best-known by his stage name Kal Penn, is an American film actor and politician who is serving as the Associate Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement in the...
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Louis Caldera
Louis Caldera (born April 1, 1956) was Director of the White House Military Office from January 20, 2009 until May 22, 2009 and served as the 17th United States Secretary of the Army from July 2, 1998 until January 20, 2001.
Caldera, the son of...
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Mona Sutphen
Mona K. Sutphen (born November 10, 1967) is an American civil service worker and author. She serves as the White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy in the Obama administration..
Sutphen was managing director of Stonebridge, a Washington-based...
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Sonia Sotomayor
Sonia Sotomayor (English pronunciation: /ˈsoʊnjə ˌsoʊtoʊ.maɪˈjɔr/, Spanish: [ˈsoɲa sotomaˈʝor]; born June 25, 1954) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving since August 2009. Sotomayor is the Court's 111th justice,...
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- Aug 6, 2009
Hilda Solis
Hilda Lucia Solis (born October 20, 1957) is the 25th United States Secretary of Labor, serving in the Obama administration. She is a member of the Democratic Party and served in the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2009,...
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