Tom Griscom

Tom Griscom
White House Director of Communications
In office April 2, 1987 – July 1, 1988
President	Ronald Reagan
Preceded by	Jack Koehler
Succeeded by	Mari Maseng
Personal details
Born	1949 (age 67–68) Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Education	University of Tennessee, Chattanooga (BA)

Thomas Cecil "Tom" Griscom (born 1949) served as Director of White House Communications under President Ronald Reagan, was a top aide and adviser for a decade to U.S. Senator Howard Baker of Tennessee, and was the executive editor and publisher of the Chattanooga Times Free Press from October 1999 to June 30, 2010. Griscom also served in the 1990s as the executive vice president for external relations for the RJ Reynolds Tobacco company, as an employee of Rupert Murdoch's News Ltd; and as a public relations consultant with Powell-Tate.

In December 1998, Fortune magazine's "The Power of 25: the influence merchants" named Griscom, along with other ex-White House staff, ex-politicians and sons-of-politicians, as a key lobbyist in Washington.

He was political editor at The Chattanooga News-Free Press.

In 1978 Griscom joined the staff of Senator Baker and served as press secretary. In 1985-86, after Baker's retirement from the Senate, Griscom served as the executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), and was charged with the task of overseeing the re-election efforts of the Republican majority in the Senate. He later became part of the Reagan administration in 1987, while Baker was chief of staff. As Baker's senior staff person, he essentially ran day-to-day operations at the White House , and he maintained the strong links between the administration and the Republican Party.

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