Joe Hagin

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Joe Hagin
White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations
In office
January 20, 2017 – July 6, 2018
PresidentDonald Trump
Preceded byAnita Decker Breckenridge
Succeeded byDaniel Walsh
In office
January 20, 2001 – July 20, 2008
PresidentGeorge W. Bush
Preceded bySteve Ricchetti
Succeeded byBlake Gottesman
Personal details
Born
Joseph Whitehouse Hagin II

(1956-01-06) January 6, 1956 (age 68)
Lexington, Kentucky, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
EducationKenyon College (BA)

Joseph Whitehouse Hagin II (born January 6, 1956) is an American political aide who served as White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations under President

Jet Support Services Inc. Joe Hagin co-founded Command Consulting Group
in April 2009.

Early life

Hagin was born in Lexington, Kentucky and raised in the

Cincinnati, Ohio. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Kenyon College in 1979 where he was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon
fraternity.

Career

Hagin with President George W. Bush in 2005
Hagin during the April 2017 Syrian missile strike operation

Hagin aided George H. W. Bush during his unsuccessful GOP presidential nomination campaign in 1979. When Bush became vice president in 1981, he selected Hagin as his personal aide. Bush also appointed him to head the Vice President's Legislative Affairs, 1983–85. In 1985, Hagin left the White House to be Public Affairs Director for Federated Department Stores, which owns Macy's and Bloomingdale's.

He returned to politics during the

Chiquita Brands International
.

Hagin aided George W. Bush as a deputy campaign manager during the

2000 presidential campaign. He was appointed Deputy Chief of Staff in 2001 and remained in the position until July 2008. Prior to Karl Rove's resignation in 2007, Hagin's day-to-day power rivaled that of Rove.[4]

In January 2017, President-Elect Donald Trump announced that Hagin would serve in as the White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations.[1] Chief of Staff John F. Kelly announced on September 6, 2017, at a White House staff meeting, that Hagin will oversee the president's schedule.[5]

Hagin played a central role in planning the

North Korea–United States summit in Singapore in June 2018.[6]

Notes

  1. ^ a b "Trump names three senior White House staffers". Politico. Retrieved 2017-01-20.
  2. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 2017-01-20.
  3. The Politico
  4. National Public Radio
    .
  5. ^ Maggie Haberman; Glenn Thrush (September 8, 2017). "New White House Chief of Staff Has an Enforcer". The New York Times. Retrieved September 9, 2017.
  6. ^ politico.com 19 June 2018: White House deputy chief of staff Hagin to leave

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Political offices
Preceded by White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations
2001–2008 		Succeeded by
Preceded by White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations
2017–2018 		Succeeded by
† Remained from previous administration
.