Administration staff david axelrod

==== THE ADMINISTRATION * WHITE HOUSE STAFF ====
=== WHITE HOUSE STAFF ===
administration_staff_rahm_emanuel Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel 
administration_staff_jim_messina Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina 
administration_staff_mona_sutphen Deputy Chief of Staff Mona Sutphen 
administration_staff_david_axelrod Senior Adviser David Axelrod 
administration_staff_valerie_jarrett Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett 
administration_staff_pete_rouse Senior Adviser Pete Rouse 
=== THE ADMINISTRATION ===
administration_president_obama President Barack Obama 
administration_vice_president_biden Vice President Joe Biden 
administration_michelle_obama First Lady Michelle Obama 
administration_jill_biden Dr. Jill Biden 
administration_cabinet The Cabinet 
administration_staff White House Staff 
administration_eop Executive Office of the President 
== SENIOR ADVISOR DAVID AXELROD ==
David Axelrod is Senior Advisor to President Barack H. Obama. Prior to that, he served as Senior Advisor to the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition and Senior Strategist to Barack Obama's campaign for the presidency.
Since 1988, Axelrod has been Senior Partner at the consulting firm AKP&D Message and Media, based in Chicago. In that capacity, he managed media strategy and communications for more than 150 local, state, and national campaigns, with a focus on progressive candidates and causes.
In 2006, Axelrod ran the independent expenditure media program for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, helping Democrats regain the majority in the House of Representatives. That same year, Axelrod served as media adviser to Deval Patrick, who was elected Massachusetts's first Democratic governor in 16 years and the state's first-ever African American governor. In 2004, when President Obama was a member of the Illinois State Senate, Axelrod helped him defeat a primary field of six other Democrats and go on to a landslide win in his U.S. Senate campaign.
Before entering politics in 1984, Axelrod spent eight years as a reporter for The Chicago Tribune, where he covered national, state, and local politics. In 1981, he became the youngest political writer and columnist in the paper's history. He also served as the Tribune's City Hall bureau chief.
Active in charitable work in Chicago, Axelrod has supported Special Olympics and Misericordia. In 1998, he and his wife, Susan, helped found Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy (CURE), which has raised more than $9 million so far for scientists searching for a cure.
Axelrod was born in New York City on February 22, 1955, and graduated from Stuyvesant High School and the University of Chicago. He served as an Adjunct Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University and has lectured on political media at Harvard University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Pennsylvania. He is married to Susan Landau and has three children, Lauren, Michael, and Ethan.
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