Joshua B. Bolten

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Joshua Brewster Bolten (born August 16, 1955, although other sources list his year of birth as 1954) was named as U.S. President George W. Bush's second White House Chief of Staff on March 28, 2006, replacing Andrew Card on April 14, 2006.

Contents

1 Early history
2 Government service
3 References
4 External links

Early history

Bolten's father, Seymour, worked for the CIA and his mother, Analouise, taught world history at George Washington University. He graduated from St. Albans School, and he is now on the school's board. At Princeton University, he attended the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He also served as class president and president of the exclusive Ivy Club. He graduated in 1976. At Stanford Law School, from which he graduated in 1980, he was an editor of the law review.

Government service

Formerly the Director of Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Bolten was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to that position in 2003. Bolten was Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy at the White House from 2001 to 2003. He previously served as policy director for the 2000 George W. Bush Presidential campaign from 1999 to 2000 and as Executive Director for Legal and Government Affairs at Goldman Sachs in London from 1994 to 1999. He was general counsel to the Office of the United States Trade Representative for three years and Deputy Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs for one year during the administration of George H. W. Bush.

Bolten is sworn in as White House Chief of Staff by his Deputy Joe Hagin; his predecessor Andrew Card watches on.

Bolten was named as White House Chief of Staff to smooth relations with the United States Congress, and to reinvigorate the West Wing staff. He is credited with having assisted the President in recruiting Hank Paulson - the CEO of Goldman Sachs - to serve as Treasury Secretary, based on his former employment at the firm. In addition, he recruited Tony Snow to work as White House Press Secretary, offered Rob Portman the opportunity to succeed him as OMB Director, and brought his OMB deputy Joel Kaplan in to the White House as Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy.

References

External links

[White House biography]
[NNDB summary]
[Joshua Bolten's political donations] at newsmeat.com
[Biography in Stanford Law School magazine]
[Who2 profile of Bolten]
[Friends discuss Bolten's college experience] at dailyprincetonian.com.
[Yale Daily News: Bolten's Former Yale Colleagues Discuss the New Bush Tap] by Andrew Mangino and Maggie Reid

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