Kenneth Brian Mehlman (born August 21, 1966, Baltimore, Maryland) is an American attorney and political figure. Currently Managing Director and head of Global Public Affairs for Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, he previously served as a partner at the law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld.
Mehlman has been a longtime figure in the Republican Party. He was as campaign manager for the 2004 re-election campaign of George W. Bush before serving as chair...
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Kenneth Brian Mehlman (born August 21, 1966, Baltimore, Maryland) is an American attorney and political figure. Currently Managing Director and head of Global Public Affairs for Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, he previously served as a partner at the law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld.
Mehlman has been a longtime figure in the Republican Party. He was as campaign manager for the 2004 re-election campaign of George W. Bush before serving as chairman of the Republican National Committee from 2005 to 2007. In June 2007, Bush appointed Mehlman to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council.
Mehlman is Jewish and lives in Washington, D.C.
Mehlman is the son of Judith A. Mehlman and Arthur S. Mehlman, a director of MuniMae and formerly a partner at KPMG, for which he was the head of the firm's auditing department in the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area. Mehlman's brother Bruce Mehlman works as a lobbyist at Mehlman Vogel Castagnetti.
Mehlman received his undergraduate degree in 1988 from...
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