Erskine Bowles
| Erskine Bowles | |
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| Chair of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform | |
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In office February 18, 2010 – December 1, 2010 Served with Alan Simpson |
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| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| President of the University of North Carolina System | |
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In office October 3, 2005 – December 31, 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Molly Broad |
| Succeeded by | Tom Ross |
| 19th White House Chief of Staff | |
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In office January 20, 1997 – October 20, 1998 |
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| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Leon Panetta |
| Succeeded by | John Podesta |
| White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations | |
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In office October 3, 1994 – January 11, 1996 |
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| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Philip Lader |
| Succeeded by | Evelyn Lieberman |
| 18th Administrator of the Small Business Administration | |
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In office May 7, 1993 – October 3, 1994 |
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| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Pat Saiki |
| Succeeded by | Philip Lader |
| Personal details | |
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August 8, 1945 Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Education |
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (BA) Columbia University (MBA) |
Erskine Boyce Bowles (born August 8, 1945) is an American businessman and political figure from North Carolina. He served from 2005 to 2010 as the president of the University of North Carolina system. In 1997–98 he served as White House Chief of Staff and he also ran unsuccessfully for the United States Senate from North Carolina in 2002 and 2004.
In 2010 Bowles served as the Democratic co-chair of President Barack Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform with Alan K. Simpson. Bowles and Simpson co-led a business group, The Campaign to Fix the Debt.
Bowles was born and raised in Greensboro, North Carolina and is the son of Jessamine Woodward Boyce Bowles and the late Hargrove "Skipper" Bowles, Jr., a Democratic politician who ran unsuccessfully for Governor of North Carolina in 1972. Siblings include Hargrove Bowles III, Mary Holland Bowles Blanton and the late Martha Thomas Bowles. Bowles graduated from Virginia Episcopal School before attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity and graduated with a business degree. After briefly serving in the United States Coast Guard, Bowles then enrolled in Columbia Business School, where he earned an MBA.
Following graduation, Bowles worked for the financial firm Morgan Stanley in New York City. There, he met his wife, Crandall Close; the two married in 1971 and moved to North Carolina, where Bowles worked on his father's 1972 gubernatorial campaign. Crandall and Erskine have three children: Sam, Annie, and Bill. In 1975, Bowles helped launch the investment firm of Bowles Hollowell Conner, and remained in the corporate sector until the 1990s.
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