Kellyanne Conway
| Kellyanne Conway | |
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| Counselor to the President | |
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Assumed office January 20, 2017 Serving with Steve Bannon, Dina Powell |
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| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | John Podesta |
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| Born |
Kellyanne Elizabeth Fitzpatrick January 20, 1967 Camden, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | George Conway (2001–present) |
| Children | 4 |
| Education |
Trinity Washington University (BA) George Washington University (JD) |
Kellyanne Elizabeth Conway (née Fitzpatrick; born January 20, 1967) is an American political activist currently serving as Counselor to the President for Donald Trump and has also been a Republican Party campaign manager, strategist, and pollster who was formerly president and CEO of The Polling Company Inc./Woman Trend.
In 2016, Conway endorsed Ted Cruz in the Republican presidential primaries and chaired a pro-Cruz political action committee, Keep the Promise I, which ran advertisements critical of then Republican candidate Donald Trump. On July 1, 2016, after Cruz withdrew from the race, Donald Trump appointed her as a senior advisor, and later campaign manager to his campaign. She was the first woman to successfully run a presidential campaign. On December 22, 2016, Trump announced that Conway would join his administration as Counselor to the President, serving alongside Steve Bannon, assistant to the President and White House chief strategist.
Since Trump's inauguration, Conway has been embroiled in a series of controversies, including the coining of the phrase "alternative facts" to defend untruths, the seeming invention of the non-event the "Bowling Green massacre" to further an argument, leaking negative stories about White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer and the public endorsement of commercial products associated with the president's daughter Ivanka Trump. As a result, a number of media outlets have called her credibility into question, with some refusing her requests for one on one interviews.
Kellyanne Elizabeth Fitzpatrick was born on January 20, 1967 in Camden, New Jersey to Diane Fitzpatrick. Conway's father, who had Irish ancestry, owned a small trucking company, and her mother, who was of Italian descent, worked at a bank. They divorced when she was three. She was raised by her mother, grandmother and two unmarried aunts in the Atco section of Waterford Township, New Jersey, and graduated from St. Joseph High School in 1985. Her family's religion was Catholic.
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