Reince Priebus

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Reince Priebus (2011)

Reinhold Richard "Reince" Priebus (born March 18, 1972 in Dover , New Jersey ) is an American lawyer and politician of the Republican Party . The former chairman of the Republican Party in Wisconsin was chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC) from 2011 to 2017 . Under Donald Trump , Priebus was White House Chief of Staff from January to July 2017 .

Family, education and work

Priebus has German - Greek roots. He grew up in Netcong , New Jersey until he and his family moved to Wisconsin at the age of seven. His father Richard was an electrician and his mother Dimitra a real estate agent. At sixteen he helped in several election campaigns at his high school . After graduating, he went to the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater . There he studied English and political science. During his studies, he joined the Delta Chi fraternity and was elected President of the Student Council and Chairman of the Republican Students. Priebus completed his undergraduate studies cum laude in 1994 .

He graduated from the University of Miami Law School in 1998 with a law degree . He worked as a lawyer in a large law firm.

Priebus has been married since 1999. He has two children with his wife Sally, whom he knows from school. They lived in Kenosha before moving near the RNC headquarters in Washington. He is a Greek Orthodox Christian and an active member of St. Sophia's Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Washington, DC

Political career

In the party organization

In 2007 he was elected chairman of the Wisconsin Republican Party. In January 2011, he replaced Michael Steele as chairman of the Republican National Committee , the nationwide party organization of the Republicans. In the seventh ballot he won 97 out of 168 votes and thus achieved an absolute majority over his competitors Saul Anuzis and Maria Cino . In January 2013 and January 2015 he was confirmed in office for a further two years without any opposing candidates.

In the White House

On November 13, 2016, it was announced that Priebus would be appointed future chief of staff of then- elected President Donald Trump . Priebus was seen as an interface and mediator between Trump and the Republican Party, especially through his close ties to Paul Ryan , the spokesman for the US House of Representatives . On July 28, 2017, Trump accepted Priebus' offer of resignation and tweeted the appointment of former general and previous minister of homeland security , John F. Kelly , as his successor. Priebus' position had been in jeopardy for months because he failed to develop authority over the competing centers of power in the White House. The new White House communications director, Anthony Scaramucci , appointed a week earlier , had publicly disavowed Priebus. Priebus' departure has been interpreted as the collapse of the party-affiliated establishment wing in Trump's government and as a challenge from Trump to his own party in Congress.

Speculation

After leaving the White House, Priebus returned to the major law firm Michael Best and Friedrich , for which he had previously worked. In April 2018, it was speculated that following Paul Ryan's announcement that he would no longer stand for election in November 2018 , he might run for the United States House in his 1st Congressional constituency, Wisconsins . Priebus refused, but did not rule out a later application for a political election office.

Positions

Priebus criticized US President Barack Obama's budget policy and called it "ruthless". His main concern is to stop the increase in debt.

Web links

Commons : Reince Priebus  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ David Doege: Reince Priebus. ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Milwaukee Business Journal , February 22, 2008, on the Michael Best & Friedrich LLP website, accessed June 20, 2016 (PDF; 949 kB). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.michaelbest.com
  2. ^ A b Reince Priebus, Chairman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin ( Memento of March 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). In: Republican Party of Wisconsin , June 20, 2016 (English).
  3. ^ Trump names Orthodox Christian as White House Chief of Staff. In: Pravmir.com , November 15, 2016 (English).
  4. ^ John McCormick: Wisconsin's Priebus Elected National Republican Party Chairman ( September 12, 2011 memento in the Internet Archive ). In: Bloomberg Businessweek , January 15, 2011 (English).
  5. ^ Mark Preston: Priebus elected to a second term as RNC chair. In: CNN.com , January 25, 2013 (English).
  6. ↑ Michael D. Shear, Alan Rappeport, Maggie Haberman: Donald Trump Picks Reince Priebus as Chief of Staff. In: The New York Times , November 13, 2016.
  7. ↑ a b Perry Bacon Jr .: The Party Establishment Wing Of Trumpworld Collapses. In: FiveThirtyEight , July 28, 2017 (English); Clemens Wergin : Now the “militarization” of the White House is progressing. In: Die Welt , July 29, 2017.
  8. ^ Washingtonpost.com: Trump tortured Spicer and Priebus. Now they get to tell investigators about Trump
  9. ↑ Cristiano Lima: Priebus says he's not running for Ryan's Wisconsin seat. In: Politico , April 12, 2018.
  10. ↑ Symbolically opened election party conference of the US Republicans. In: WeltN24 , August 27, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Priebus, Reince
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Priebus, Reinhold Reince (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and Republican Party politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Dover , New Jersey