Clifford Calley
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Clifford Calley is a fictional character played by Mark Feuerstein on the television serial drama The West Wing. Calley succeeded Josh Lyman as Deputy Chief of Staff when Lyman left the White House to serve as campaign manager for presidential candidate Matt Santos. At the end of the Bartlet Administration, Calley was deputy to White House Chief of Staff C.J. Cregg; he apparently did not remain to serve in the Santos administration.
Calley is a Republican, and took some convincing to join the administration of President Josiah Bartlet, a Democrat. When Calley was majority counsel to a Senate committee, he had a brief affair with Lyman's assistant Donnatella Moss, despite their strong political differences. After being "traded in" as majority counsel for the U.S. House Committee on Government Reform for the committee's hearings on President Bartlet's concealing of his multiple sclerosis, he firmly insisted that a member of the committee should not be allowed to reveal that Bartlet's then campaign manager and later Chief of Staff Leo McGarry, a recovering alcoholic, had been drunk on the night of the third presidential television debate during the 1998 Presidential Election.
Calley was educated at Choate Rosemary Hall, Brown University as an undergraduate, and attended Harvard Law School. He was a lobbyist before joining the White House. He always flirted with C.J. to get White House M&M's because his niece loves them.
As Deputy White House Chief of Staff, Calley was instrumental in successfully orchestrating a victory on a vote for Federal-funded stem cell research in the House.
| Preceded by Josh Lyman |
Deputy White House Chief of Staff, The West Wing 2005–2006 |
Succeeded by Sam Seaborn |
