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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IllinoisRahm EMANUEL
(1959-Â )
EMANUEL, Rahm, a
Representative from Illinois; born in Chicago, Cook County, Ill.,
on November 29, 1959; B.A., Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville,
N.Y., 1981; M.A., Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., 1985;
advisor, the White House Office, 1993-1999; bank executive; elected
as a Democrat to the One Hundred Eighth Congress and to the two
succeeding Congresses until his resignation on January 2, 2009
(January 3, 2003-January 2, 2009); chair, House Democratic Caucus
(One Hundred Tenth Congress); elected to the 111th Congress, but
declined his seat; White House Chief of Staff, 2009-2010; elected
Mayor of Chicago on February 22, 2011.
Bibliography
Bendavid, Naftali. The Thumpin’: How Rahm Emanuel and the
Democrats Learned to Be Ruthless and Ended the Republican
Revolution. New York: Doubleday, 2007.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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