Mark Gilbert
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| United States Ambassador to Samoa | |
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In office May 12, 2015 – January 20, 2017 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | David Huebner |
| Succeeded by | Scott Brown (Nominee) |
| United States Ambassador to New Zealand | |
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In office February 9, 2015 – January 20, 2017 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | David Huebner |
| Succeeded by | Scott Brown (Nominee) |
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Mark David Gilbert August 22, 1956 Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Alma mater | Florida State University, Tallahassee |
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| MLB debut | |||
| July 21, 1985, for the Chicago White Sox | |||
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| July 27, 1985, for the Chicago White Sox | |||
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| Batting average | .273 | ||
| Home runs | 0 | ||
| Runs batted in | 3 | ||
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Mark David Gilbert (born August 22, 1956) is a former outfielder in Major League Baseball, who served as the United States Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa from 2015 to 2017.
Gilbert played for the Chicago White Sox in 1985. Subsequently, he had a career as an investment banker.
In 2013, United States President Barack Obama nominated Gilbert to be United States Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa. The U.S. Senate confirmed Gilbert on December 12, 2014.
Gilbert is Jewish, and was born to a Jewish family in Atlanta, Georgia. He was raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with his younger brother and sister until 1973, when they moved to Pompano Beach, Florida, where his father and grandfather owned a furniture store. His father Herbert had played professional baseball as an infielder with the Chicago White Sox organization (reaching Triple A), and his grandfather Joseph Gilbert had played semi-pro baseball as a pitcher and been offered a pro baseball contract with the 1919 Philadelphia Athletics.
He is married to Nancy Gilbert. She owns The Masorti Travel Bureau, which developed the itinerary of the first trip of Birthright Israel, an organization that arranges free trips to Israel for first-time visiting Jewish students ages 18 to 25. The couple has two daughters, Dani and Elizabeth. Gilbert served for three terms as the President of B'nai Torah Congregation in Boca Raton, Florida, and the Gilberts live in Boca Raton.
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