Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Jon Favreau/Jonathan Favreau, President Barack Obama's Speech Writer

Jon Favreau/Jonathan Favreau, President Barack Obama's Speech Writer. Jon Favreau/Jonathan Favreau (born June 6, 1981) is President Barack Obama's Director of Speechwriting. Originally from Massachusettes, Favreau attended the College of the Holy Cross, graduating as valedictorian. In college, he accumulated a variety of scholastic honors, and took part in and directed numerous community and civic programs. After graduation, he went to work for the John Kerry Presidential campaign in 2004, working to collect talk radio news for the campaign, and eventually was promoted to the role of Deputy Speechwriter. While working for the Kerry campaign, he first met Barack Obama.


In 2005, Robert Gibbs recommended Favreau to Obama as an excellent speechwriter. Favreau was hired as Obama's speechwriter shortly after Obama's election to the United States Senate. Obama and Favreau grew close, and Obama has referred to him as his "mind reader". He went on the campaign trail with Obama during his successful Presidential election campaign. In 2009, he was named as a White House staff member, as Director of Speechwriting, becoming the second youngest person ever to take that post.

In 2009, Favreau was named to serve in President Barack Obama's White House as Director of Speechwriting. He is the second youngest chief White House speechwriter on record after James Fallows. He currently lives in a condominium in Washington D.C.'s Dupont Circle neighborhood. Alejandra Campoverdi, a Harvard graduate, White House Aide, and former Maxim magazine Underwear model, has been romantically linked with him.

Favreau has said his work with Obama will be his final job in the realm of politics, saying, "Anything else would be anticlimactic. In regards to his post-political future, he said, "Maybe I'll write a screenplay, or maybe a fiction book based loosely on what all of this was like. You had a bunch of kids working on this campaign together, and it was such a mix of the serious and momentous and just the silly ways that we are. For people in my generation, it was an unbelievable way to grow up."

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