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Job Title:	White House Chief of Staff under President Bush
Term of Office:	April 14, 2006 –
Predecessor:	Andrew Card
Successor:	Incumbent
Date of Birth:	August 16, 1955
Political Party:	Republican

Joshua Brewster Bolten (born August 16, 1955, although other sources list his year of birth as 1954) was named as White House Chief of Staff on March 28, 2006, replacing Andrew Card on April 14, 2006. He is Jewish.

Early History

Bolten's father, Seymour, worked for the CIA and his mother, Analouise, taught world history at George Washington University. He graduated from St. Albans School, and he is now on the school's board. At Princeton University, he attended the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He also served as class president and president of the exclusive Ivy Club. He graduated in 1976. At Stanford Law School, from which he graduated in 1980, he was an editor of the law review.

Government Service

Formerly the Director of Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Bolten was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to that position in 2003. Bolten was Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy at the White House from 2001 to 2003. He previously served as policy director for the 2000 George W. Bush Presidential campaign from 1999 to 2000 and as Executive Director for Legal and Government Affairs at Goldman Sachs in London from 1994 to 1999. He was general counsel to the Office of the United States Trade Representative for three years and Deputy Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs for one year during the administration of George H. W. Bush.

Bush Administration

Bolten was brought in by Bush to smooth relations with Congress, and to reinvigorate the West Wing staff.

External links

• NNDB summary
• Joshua Bolten's political donations at newsmeat.com
• Biography in Stanford Law School magazine
• Who2 profile of Bolten
• Friends discuss Bolten's college experience at dailyprincetonian.com.
• Yale Daily News: Bolten's Former Yale Colleagues Discuss the New Bush Tap by Andrew Mangino and Maggie Reid

v t e White House chiefs of staff
Steelman Adams Persons O'Donnell Jenkins Moyers Valenti M. Watson Jones Haldeman Haig Rumsfeld Cheney Jordan J. Watson J. Baker Regan H. Baker Duberstein Sununu Skinner J. Baker McLarty Panetta Bowles Podesta Card Bolten Emanuel Rouse Daley Lew McDonough Priebus Kelly Mulvaney Meadows Klain Zients Wiles (designate)

v t e Directors of the United States Office of Management and Budget
Charles G. Dawes Herbert Lord Clawson Roop Lewis W. Douglas Daniel W. Bell Harold Smith James Webb Frank Pace Frederick Lawton Joseph Dodge Rowland Hughes Percival Brundage Maurice Stans David E. Bell Kermit Gordon Charles Schultze Charles Zwick Robert P. Mayo George Shultz Caspar Weinberger Roy Ash James Thomas Lynn Lance James T. McIntyre David Stockman James Miller Jon Wright Richard Darman Leon Panetta Alice Rivlin Franklin Raines Jack Lew Mitch Daniels Joshua Bolten Rob Portman Jim Nussle Peter R. Orszag Jack Lew Sylvia Mathews Burwell Shaun Donovan Mick Mulvaney Russell Vought Shalanda Young

v t e Members of the Cabinet of the United States
Cabinet members	Biden Harris Austin Becerra Blinken Buttigieg Cardona Garland Granholm Haaland Mayorkas McDonough Raimondo Su Todman Vilsack Yellen
Cabinet-level members	Bernstein Burns Guzman Haines Prabhakar Regan Tai Thomas-Greenfield Young Zients
acting Cabinet of Joe Biden

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