Question: Which state was this American lawyer and Republican politician from, who started his new position in 2017 backed by Trump but failed to work well with the senior White House adviser Don Benton?
Context: Brad Parscale (born January 3, 1976) is an American digital media and political strategist.  He served as the digital media director for Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.  Parscale began working for the Trump Organization in 2011, developing and designing websites, and creating and managing digital media strategies.  In early 2015, Trump hired Parscale and his firm, Giles-Parscale, to create a website for his exploratory campaign.  When Trump declared himself a Republican candidate in 2015, one of the first people he called was Parscale, asking him to update his exploratory campaign site into a "full-fledged presidential campaign website."  Throughout the Republican primary, Parscale was responsible for the Donald J. Trump for President website, as well as for digital media strategy and online fundraising campaigns.  In June 2016, Parscale was officially named digital media director for the Donald J. Trump for President campaign, overseeing all aspects of digital media and online fundraising, as well as traditional media strategy, like radio and television placements.  In January 2017, Parscale, along with another senior Trump aide, Nick Ayers, formally launched America First Policies, a non-profit organization that promotes President Trump's agenda and White House initiatives. Richard Socarides (born November 8, 1954) is an American Democratic political strategist, writer, commentator and a New York attorney.  Socarides was named Head of Public Affairs for Gerson Lehrman Group in August 2013.  He was a White House adviser under United States President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1999 in a variety of senior positions, including as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Adviser for Public Liaison.  He worked on legal, policy and political issues and served as principal adviser to Clinton on gay and lesbian civil rights issues.  Under Clinton, he was chief operating officer of the 50th Anniversary Summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).  Socarides also worked as special assistant to Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa).  From 2000 to 2006, Socarides held senior positions at Time Warner, including at its divisions New Line Cinema and AOL. Edward Scott Pruitt (born May 9, 1968) is an American lawyer and Republican politician from the state of Oklahoma who is currently the fourteenth Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).  Nominated for the position by President Donald Trump, Pruitt was confirmed by the United States Senate to lead the EPA on February 17, 2017. Samuel H. Clovis Jr. (born September 18, 1949) is a United States Air Force veteran, radio host, and academic who is currently serving as the senior White House adviser to the United States Department of Agriculture.  He was national co-chair of the Trump-Pence campaign in the 2016 presidential election.  In January 2017, President Donald Trump made Clovis a senior White House adviser to the USDA until a permanent USDA director would be approved.  In September 2017, Trump nominated Clovis as Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research, Education, and Economics in the United States Department of Agriculture. Donald Mark Benton (born April 8, 1957) is an American politician of the Republican Party.  He is originally from Santa Clarita, California, and from 1997 until 2017 was a member of the Washington State Senate, where he represented Washington's 17th legislative district.  He served as campaign director for Donald Trump in Washington state in 2016.  After that he was appointed as a "senior White House adviser" at the US Environmental Protection Agency for a few weeks, but reportedly did not work well with newly appointed agency head Scott Pruitt.  In April 2017 Benton was named by President Trump as the 13th Director of the Selective Service System. Randal Keith Quarles (born September 5, 1957 in San Francisco) is founder and head of The Cynosure Group, a private investment firm backed by a network of large family offices in the United States.  Before founding Cynosure, he was a partner of The Carlyle Group, one of the world's largest private equity firms.  From August 2001 until October 2006, he held several important financial policy posts in the George W. Bush administration, ultimately serving as Under Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance.  As Under Secretary, he was the lead advocate for imposing greater regulation on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, arguing that they posed significant risk to the financial sector, and argued for fundamental reform of the entire financial regulatory system—extending broader and more uniform federal regulation to investment banks and insurance companies—because the current system restricted regulators' ability to observe and limit risk in the system.  In his earlier positions in the administration he had a key role in response to several international crises—the Argentine debt default, as well as near defaults in Brazil, Turkey and Uruguay—and chaired the international working group that led to changes in the terms of sovereign debt finance that now permit collective action by creditors in such crises.  He also argued strongly for improving international coordination of financial regulation, initiating a regular dialogue with the European Union on financial regulatory matters and representing the United States at the Financial Stability Forum.  He negotiated the historic debt relief agreement for the world's poorest countries reached at the G7 Meetings in London during 2005.  In prior government service, he was an important member of the team developing the government's response to the savings and loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s.  At the time of his departure from government, Hank Paulson, the Treasury Secretary, noted that he had played a role in an unusually large range of matters in the history of the Treasury – "from the Argentine debt default to terrorism risk insurance, and from Chinese currency flexibility to GSE reform", and awarded him the Alexander Hamilton Medal, the Treasury Department's highest honor.  He is widely mentioned as a possible Treasury Secretary or senior White House adviser in any future Republican administration. Jon Wolfsthal is an independent consultant and expert on all aspects of nuclear weapons, arms control, nonproliferation, and deterrence issues.  He is a non-resident fellow at the Managing the Atom Project at the Belfer Center at Harvard University and at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.  He is also a columnist for Foreign Policy's Shadow Government.  He is also a senior advisor at Global Zero.  He served most recently (2014-2017) as special assistant to President Barack Obama and Senior Director for Arms Control and Nonproliferation at the National Security Council.  In that post, we was the most senior White House official setting and implementing U.S. Government policy on all aspects of arms control, nonproliferation, and nuclear policy.  He worked previously in government, in academia and in the non-governmental community and is a leading scholar and educator in the areas of nuclear deterrence, arms control and nonproliferation issues.  During his more than five years at the White House, he helped guide key aspects of U.S. nuclear and nonproliferation policy.  He was directly involved in crafting President Obama's Prague speech (April 2009), served on the delegation to the 2010 Nuclear Security Summit, helped negotiate and gain Senate approval of the New START arms control agreement with Russia, helped draft the 2010 Nuclear Posture Review and coordinated U.S. policy for the 2015 NPT Review Conference.  He was instrumental in supporting President Obama's historic visit to Hiroshima, Japan in 2016. Dr. Robert G. Darling served, in the White House Medical Unit, as the first board-certified emergency medicine physician.  He provided both primary care and protective medical support services to President Clinton, Vice President Gore, their immediate families and other senior White House officials at the White House and while they traveled all over the world.  During this time Dr. Darling administered emergency and preventative medical services in over 40 countries, including numerous undeveloped regions and third-world countries with limited medical services.He practiced aboard Air Force One, Marine One and other official aircraft.  He also worked with the U.S. Secret Service in the preparation for unconventional weapon attacks against the President and the creation of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear defense (CBRNE) training and readiness programs. The White House FBI files controversy of the Clinton Administration, often referred to as Filegate, arose in June 1996 around improper access in 1993 and 1994 to FBI security-clearance documents.  Craig Livingstone, director of the White House's Office of Personnel Security, improperly requested, and received from the FBI, background reports concerning several hundred individuals without asking permission.  The revelations provoked a strong political and press reaction because many of the files covered White House employees from previous Republican administrations, including top presidential advisors.  Under criticism, Livingstone resigned from his position.  Allegations were made that senior White House figures, including First Lady Hillary Clinton, may have requested and read the files for political purposes, and that the First Lady had authorized the hiring of the underqualified Livingstone. Faith Ryan Whittlesey (born 1939) is a former Pennsylvania Republican politician and White House Senior Staff member notable for her effort to communicate Reagan's entire policy agenda to U.S. opinion leaders and for bringing together for the first time in the Reagan White House evangelical, Catholic, and other conservative religious groups who opposed legalized abortion and were concerned about moral and cultural decline and the break-up of the family.  These groups became a significant component of the Reagan coalition as they grew more politically self-conscious in the 1980s.  Whittlesey also organized the White House Central American Outreach Group at the direction of Chief of Staff James Baker to provide information about Reagan's anti-communist policies in the region and was an active supporter of Reagan's defense buildup and the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI).  Whittlesey served twice for a total of nearly 5 years as U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland and also served for 2 years on the Reagan White House Senior Staff as Assistant to the President for Public Liaison.
Answer: Oklahoma