Word: vilsack
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After dropping out of the primary, Vilsack endorsed Senator Hillary Clinton for president and served as one of her campaign's national co-chairs, but he campaigned heavily for Obama after the Illinois senator secured the nomination. Clinton is also set to serve in Obama's cabinet as secretary of state, pending confirmation by the Senate early next year...
...Vilsack's agricultural policies are not his only connections to the president-elect. Obama’s Chief Strategist David Axelrod also advised Vilsack during his Iowa gubernatorial campaign, and Vilsack’s wife, then-Iowa First Lady Christie Vilsack, spoke during the 2004 Democratic National Convention on the same night as Obama...
...Vilsack spent the fall serving as a fellow at the IOP, where he organized a study group entitled “Do the Gods or Odds Control Us?: A Study of Risk and Responsibility in the Big Issues Facing America Today...
...Pennsylvania native, Vilsack graduated from Hamilton College and Albany Law School. He moved to his wife’s hometown of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, where he was elected mayor in 1987 after the city’s then-mayor was killed...
...Vilsack set a self-imposed term-limit and planned to step down after four years in the post...