White House Press Secretary

White House Press Secretary
Kayleigh McEnany Acting White House Press Secretary
Appointed by	Current President of the United States : Donald Trump
First incumbent	George E. Akerson (1929)
Current incumbent	Kayleigh McEnany
Creation of office	1929
Deputy	White House Deputy Press Secretary
Website	www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room

The press secretary of the White House ( English White House Press Secretary ) is a high-ranking function in the White House . The owner heads the Office of the Press Secretary of the White House and has the task of bringing government statements, in particular by the President , the Vice President and other high-ranking government politicians to the press. He is comparable to the government spokesman or the press and information office of the federal government in Germany. There is also the position of White House communications director , with whom the press secretary usually works closely.

The White House press secretary is responsible for the publication of government information to the media (mainly journalists) and has daily contact - mostly through the "daily press briefing" - with the journalists accredited to the White House.

history

Many White House spokespeople previously worked for newspapers or television stations, such as Stephen Early (1950, previously with the Associated Press ), James Hagerty (1953–1961, previously with the New York Times ), Pierre Salinger (1961–1964, previously at the San Francisco Chronicle ), Ron Nessen (1974–1977, previously with NBC News ), Tony Snow (2006–2009, previously with Fox News ), Jay Carney (2011–2014, previously with Time Magazine ) or Kayleigh McEnany (since 2020 , previously on CNN ).

After Jay Carney stepped down in mid-June 2014, the previous deputy Josh Earnest was appointed as his successor on June 20, 2014. With the election of Donald Trump , Sean Spicer became the new spokesman. After his resignation in July 2017, his deputy Sarah Huckabee Sanders succeeded him. She resigned in early July 2019 and was replaced by Stephanie Grisham .

List of White House press officers

Press officer	image	Term of office	president
George Edward Akerson		March 4, 1929 - March 16, 1931	Hoover
Theodore Goldsmith Joslin		March 16, 1931 - March 4, 1933
Stephen Tyree Early		March 4, 1933 - March 29, 1945	Roosevelt
Jonathan Worth Daniels		March 29, 1945 - May 15, 1945	Roosevelt, Truman
Charlie Griffith Ross		May 15, 1945 - December 5, 1950	Truman
Stephen Tyree Early ( executive )		December 5, 1950 - December 18, 1950
Joseph Hudson Short, Jr.		December 18, 1950 - September 18, 1952
Roger Wellington Tubby		December 18, 1952 - January 20, 1953
James Campbell Hagerty		January 20, 1953 - January 20, 1961	Eisenhower
Pierre Emil George Salinger		January 20, 1961 - March 19, 1964	Kennedy , Johnson
George Edward Reedy		March 19, 1964 - July 8, 1965	Johnson
Billy Don Moyers		July 8, 1965 - February 1, 1966
George Eastland Christian Jr.		February 1, 1966 - January 20, 1969
Ronald Louis Ziegler		Jan. 20, 1969 - August 9, 1974	Nixon
Jerald Franklin terHorst		August 9, 1974 - September 9, 1974	ford
Ronald Harold Nessen		September 9, 1974 - January 20, 1977
Joseph Lester Powell, Jr.		Jan. 20, 1977 - January 20, 1981	Carter
James Scott Brady		January 20, 1981 - January 20, 1989	Reagan
Larry Melvin Speakes ( de facto ) 1		March 30, 1981 - February 1, 1987
Max Marlin Fitzwater (until January 20, 1989 de facto ) 1		February 1, 1987 - January 20, 1993	Reagan, Bush sr.
Margaret Jane Myers		January 20, 1993 - December 22, 1994	Clinton
George Robert Stephanopoulos ( de facto ) 2		January 20, 1993 - June 7, 1993
Michael Demaree McCurry		December 22, 1994 - August 4, 1998
Joseph Patrick Lockhart		August 4, 1998 - September 29, 2000
Richard L. Siewert Jr.		September 30, 2000 - January 20, 2001
Lawrence Ari Fleischer		January 20, 2001 - July 15, 2003	Bush jr.
Scott McClellan		July 15, 2003 - May 10, 2006
Robert Anthony Snow		May 10, 2006 - 2007
Dana Marie Perino		September 14, 2007 - January 20, 2009
Robert Lane Gibbs		January 20, 2009 - February 11, 2011	Obama
James F. Carney		February 11, 2011 - June 20, 2014
Joshua Ryan Henry Earnest		June 20, 2014 - January 20, 2017
Sean Michael Spicer		January 20, 2017 - July 21, 2017	Trump
Sarah Elizabeth Sanders		July 26, 2017 - July 1, 2019
Stephanie Ann Grisham		July 1, 2019 - April 7, 2020
Kayleigh McEnany		since April 7, 2020

¹Brady was seriously injured in an attempt to assassinate President Reagan in March 1981 . He retained his post for the remainder of Reagan's tenure, but the duties were taken over by Speakes and later Fitzwater.

² Stephanopoulos held the press conferences during his time as communications director, although Myers was the press officer

Web links

• White House Briefing Room (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Press Briefings" , The White House, Office of the Press Secretary, accessed on May 28, 2015
2. ^ "Remarks by the President, Press Secretary Jay Carney, and Principal Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest in Daily Press Briefing," accessed May 31, 2014.
3. ↑ New spokeswoman for Donald Trump: Sarah Huckabee Sanders succeeds Sean Spicer - WELT. Retrieved July 21, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Thorsten Denkler: Sarah Sanders: Resignation of the fake news master. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. Süddeutsche Zeitung GmbH, June 14, 2019, accessed on September 10, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Stephanie Grisham to be Trump's new spokeswoman | DW | 06/25/2019. In: Deutsche Welle. Deutsche Welle, June 25, 2019, accessed on September 10, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Daniel Dillmann: Donald Trump's press officer breaks her promise at the very first appearance. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. Frankfurter Rundschau GmbH, May 2, 2020, accessed on April 7, 2020 .