Photo Credit: Bernard Gotfryd (Library of Congress)

OVERVIEW:

BORN:
September 21, 1944
Charlotte, North Carolina

DIED:
May 20, 2008
Atlanta, Georgia

EDUCATION:
University of Georgia (B.A. in Political Science, 1967)

POLITICAL PARTY:
Democrat

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:
International Voluntary Services
Management Trainee, Citizen & Southern Bank (1967-1968)
Manager of Carter Gubernatorial Campaign, 1968
Executive Secretary to Governor Jimmy Carter
Director of the Georgia Democratic National Committee
Manager of Carter’s 1976 Presidential Campaign (1974-1976)
Director of the Personnel Advisory Group, Carter/Mondale Transition Planning Group
Presidential Advisor and Assistant (1977-1978)
White House Chief of Staff (1979-1981)
Manage of Carter/ Mondale Reelection Campaign (1979-1980)
Author, Crisis: The Last Year of the Carter Presidency (1981)
Candidate for Democratic Nomination for U.S. Senate (1986)
Perot Presidential Campaign (1992)

PORTRAIT:

Photo Credit: Warren K. Leffler (Library of Congress)

RESOURCES:

10/27/1978: Hamilton Jordan and Jimmy Carter (National Archives)

Georgia Encyclopedia
Wikipedia

Carter Oral History (Miller Center, 11/6/1981)
Papers (Carter Library)

MEDIA COVERAGE:

Hamilton Jordan consults with Jimmy Carter in the Oval Office on August 24, 1977 (National Archives)

Profile (WP, 12/17/1978)
Special Prosecutor, 11/30/1979 (WP)
Profile (WP, 3/20/1986)
Obituaries, 5/21/2008 (WP, NYT, LAT)
Cocaine Allegations, 9/3/2014 (Time, Time)