Rufus Gifford

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Rufus Gifford

Rufus Gifford (born August 5, 1974 in Boston ) is an American diplomat , politician and campaign manager for the Democratic Party . He gained greater fame through the reality TV series Jeg er ambassadøren during his time as ambassador to Denmark .

Life

Gifford grew up in Manchester-by-the-Sea . His father is Charles Gifford , a banker and former member of the Board of Directors of Bank of America . Rufus Gifford studied at Brown University and began working in the film industry in Los Angeles , which he later left.

Campaign staff

In 2004, he finally helped the campaign team for the then Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry to raise 30 million US dollars for his campaign. Gifford was acting as deputy head of the West America fundraising team at the time. During the election campaign for the US presidential election in 2008 , he turned down an offer to work for Hillary Clinton's campaign team and instead joined the team of later US President Barack Obama . He worked as a fundraiser in southern California and generated revenues of $ 80 million. In the 2012 election , he was the head of Obama's funding campaign, the stated goal of which was to raise $ 1 billion.

Ambassador to Denmark

From September 13, 2013 to January 20, 2017, Gifford was the successor to Laurie Fulton as the United States' Ambassador to Denmark . He also gained notoriety in Denmark through the series Jeg er ambassadøren ( German : I am the ambassador ). As part of this program, which the TV broadcaster DR3 broadcast, he was filmed in his everyday life as an ambassador. The series was later also included in the program by Netflix . For his work on the show, he was in 2015 when Danish TV Awards TV pinches in category Årets Big Character (German: Big Character of the Year ) award. Gifford has been married to Stephen DeVincent since October 2015, whom he married in Copenhagen . On January 16, 2017, Gifford was awarded the Dannebrogorden .

Return to the USA

In 2018 he was one of the Democratic Party candidates in Massachusetts in the running for a seat in Congress . In the Democratic primary, he reached fifth place with 15.1% of the vote and was therefore not a candidate for his party.

In April 2020, Joe Biden's team announced that Gifford had been hired as deputy campaign manager for the 2020 US presidential election . As such, he will again be responsible for financing the campaign, among other things.

Awards and prizes (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rufus Gifford, former ambassador to Denmark, explains why he's running for Congress in Massachusetts | Boston.com. March 18, 2018, accessed January 11, 2020 .
  2. ^ Matt Stout: Rufus Gifford's bid for Congress boosted by father's connections - The Boston Globe. June 24, 2018, accessed January 11, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b Patrick Range McDonald: Obama's Gay Gold Mine. January 30, 2008, accessed January 11, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Jennifer Bendery: Rufus Gifford: The Man Behind Obama's Historic Fundraising Machine. November 10, 2011, accessed January 11, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Donovan Slack: Banker's son mines gold for Obama . In: Boston.com . July 5, 2011 ( boston.com [accessed January 11, 2020]).
  6. ↑ Al Kamen: Obama fundraising director said headed to Denmark. In: Washington Post. February 19, 2013, accessed January 11, 2020 (American English).
  7. ^ DRTV - Jeg er ambassadøren. Retrieved January 11, 2020 (Danish).
  8. ↑ Trine Birk: Dansk serie blev follows to Netflix: Vi var målløse, da de pludselig ville købe den. October 22, 2017, accessed January 11, 2020 (Danish).
  9. ↑ Her er vinderne af tv-priserne 2015. Accessed on January 11, 2020 (English).
  10. ↑ Advocate.com:US Ambassador to Denmark Marries Dr. Stephen DeVincent
  11. ↑ DR.dk: Rufus Giffard faar Order of the Dannebrog
  12. ^ Massachusetts Primary Election Results: Third House District . In: The New York Times . ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed July 14, 2019]).
  13. ↑ Michael Scherer: Joe Biden hires Rufus Gifford as new deputy campaign manager. The Washington Post, April 29, 2020, accessed April 29, 2020 .
predecessor Office successor
Laurie Fulton United States Ambassador to Denmark
personal data
SURNAME Gifford, Rufus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 5th August 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , United States