Joel Kaplan

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Joel Kaplan
White House Deputy Chief of Staff
for Policy
In office
April 19, 2006 – January 20, 2009
Served with Karl Rove, Joe Hagin, and Blake Gottesman
President George W. Bush
Preceded by Karl Rove
Succeeded by Mona Sutphen
Personal details
Born 1970
Political party Republican
Alma mater Harvard University
Harvard Law School
Occupation Lawyer, Policy Advisor
Religion Jewish

Joel Kaplan was the White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy for U.S. President George W. Bush.[1] The other Deputy Chief was Blake Gottesman, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. He took over policy planning from Karl Rove on April 19, 2006, as part of a staff shake-up by Josh Bolten, the White House Chief of Staff.[2]

Prior to his appointment as a White House Deputy Chief of Staff, Kaplan had served as Deputy Director of the Office of Management And Budget (OMB) from August 2003, serving under Josh Bolten in his capacity as Director of the OMB. He had previously been a Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff from the start of the Bush administration up to that point.

Before 2001, Kaplan had worked as a policy advisor on George W. Bush's 2000 Presidential campaign. He had also clerked for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, and Judge J. Michael Luttig. Kaplan is a graduate of Harvard University and Harvard Law School, and has served for four years in the United States Marine Corps.[1] He was an active conservative Democrat during the early 1990s.[3]

He is currently vice president of public policy at Facebook, effective June, 13, 2011.[4]

Personal life

Kaplan married in early 2006.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "White House biography". The White House. Retrieved 2006-12-25. 
  2. ↑ Baker, Peter (June 17, 2006). "White House Personnel Changes Complete". The Washington Post. 
  3. ↑ http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=345622
  4. ↑ http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/55748.html
  5. ↑ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/3289/

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