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Major Garrett

Major Elliott Garrett
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Garrett in 2016.
Born Major Elliott Garrett
(1962-08-24) August 24, 1962 (age 54)
San Diego, California
Education University of Missouri (B.J./B.S.)
Occupation Chief White House Correspondent with CBS News

Major Elliott Garrett, (born August 24, 1962) is Chief White House Correspondent with CBS News and Correspondent at Large with National Journal. Prior to joining National Journal he was the senior White House correspondent for the Fox News Channel. He covered the 2004 presidential election, the War on Terror, and the 2008 presidential election where he covered the Democratic Party presidential primaries and later Barack Obama as the Democratic nominee.

Garrett was born in San Diego, California. He graduated in 1984 from the University of Missouri with a Bachelor of Journalism and a Bachelor of Science in Political Science. He is a member of Phi Gamma Delta.

In the 1990s, Garrett was a senior editor and congressional correspondent for U.S. News & World Report and a congressional reporter for The Washington Times before joining CNN's White House team in early 2000 and Fox News in 2002 as a general assignment reporter. There, he covered the 2004 election and served as the network's congressional correspondent. He has also been a White House correspondent for CNN and an award-winning reporter across the country for Houston Post, Las Vegas Review-Journal, and Amarillo Globe-News. His articles have appeared in such magazines as The Weekly Standard, Washington Monthly, and Mother Jones. He currently lives with his family in Washington, D.C.


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