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?

<P0-S0> Donald Mark Benton (born April 8, 1957) is an American politician of the Republican Party. <P0-S1>  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. <P0-S2>  He served as campaign director for Donald Trump in Washington state in 2016. <P0-S3>  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. <P0-S4>  In April 2017 Benton was named by President Trump as the 13th Director of the Selective Service System. <SEP> <P1-S0> Brad Parscale (born January 3, 1976) is an American digital media and political strategist. <P1-S1>  He served as the digital media director for Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. <P1-S2>  Parscale began working for the Trump Organization in 2011, developing and designing websites, and creating and managing digital media strategies. <P1-S3>  In early 2015, Trump hired Parscale and his firm, Giles-Parscale, to create a website for his exploratory campaign. <P1-S4>  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." <P1-S5>  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. <P1-S6>  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. <P1-S7>  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. <SEP> <P2-S0> 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. <P2-S1>  He was national co-chair of the Trump-Pence campaign in the 2016 presidential election. <P2-S2>  In January 2017, President Donald Trump made Clovis a senior White House adviser to the USDA until a permanent USDA director would be approved. <P2-S3>  In September 2017, Trump nominated Clovis as Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research, Education, and Economics in the United States Department of Agriculture. <SEP> <P3-S0>  Nominated for the position by President Donald Trump, Pruitt was confirmed by the United States Senate to lead the EPA on February 17, 2017. <P3-S1> 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).