White House Social Secretary

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White House Social Secretary
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since January 20, 2021
Executive Office of the President
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AppointerJoe Biden
as President of the United States
FormationOctober 2, 1901; 123 years ago (1901-10-02)
First holderBelle Hagner
WebsiteThe White House

The White House social secretary is responsible for the planning, coordination, and execution of official social events at the White House, the official residence and principal workplace of the president of the United States.

Function

The social secretary is head of the White House Social Office, located in the East Wing of the White House Complex. The social secretary plans events ranging from those as simple as a tea for the first lady and a single official guest to dinners for more than 200 guests. The social secretary works with the White House chief usher to coordinate domestic staff and with the chief of protocol of the United States, an official within the United States Department of State, to plan state visits and accompanying state dinners. The social secretary works with the White House Graphics and Calligraphy Office in the production of invitations to social events.

The social secretary works on both the political and non-political functions of the presidency, coordinating events for the president, the first lady, and senior political staff. The White House social secretary serves at the president's pleasure and is appointed by each administration.

Notable office-holders

On February 25, 2011, the White House appointed Jeremy Bernard, the first male, and first openly gay, social secretary in that position's history. "I have long admired the arts and education programs that have become hallmarks of the Obama White House and I am eager to continue these efforts in the years ahead," Bernard said during the announcing press conference.[1][2][3]

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Betty Ford with former Social Secretaries

List of White House social secretaries

No. Image Social Secretary Term of office President
1 File:HAGNER, MISS BELLE LCCN2016866602 (cropped).jpg Belle Hagner[4] 1901–1909 Theodore Roosevelt
2 File:No image wide.svg Alice Blech[5] 1909–1910 William Howard Taft
3 File:No image wide.svg Mary Spiers[6] 1910–1913
4 File:HAGNER, MISS BELLE LCCN2016866602 (cropped).jpg Belle Hagner[7] 1913–1915 Woodrow Wilson
5 File:Edith Helm (cropped).jpg Edith Benham Helm[8] 1915–1921
6 File:Miss Laura Harlan LOC npcc.04320 (cropped).jpg Laura Harlan[9] 1921–1923 Warren G. Harding
1923–1929[9] Calvin Coolidge
7 File:No image wide.svg Mary Randolph[10] 1929–1931 Herbert Hoover
8 File:No image wide.svg Doris Goss[11] 1931–1933
9 File:Edith Helm (cropped).jpg Edith Benham Helm[8] 1933–1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt
1945–1953[8] Harry S. Truman
10 File:Mary Jane McCaffree (cropped).tif Mary Jane McCaffree[12] 1955–1961 Dwight D. Eisenhower
11 File:Letitia Baldrige.jpg Letitia Baldrige[13] 1961–1963 John F. Kennedy
12 File:Nancy Tuckerman White House Official Portrait 1963 (cropped).jpg Nancy Tuckerman[14] 1963–1963
13 File:Bess Abell LBJ Library (32565920781) (cropped).jpg Bess Abell[15][16] 1963–1969 Lyndon B. Johnson
14 File:Nixon Contact Sheet WHPO-2592 (cropped).jpg Lucy Winchester[17] 1969–1974 Richard Nixon
15 File:Nancy Lammerding Ruwe (cropped).tif Nancy Lammerding Ruwe[18] 1974–1975 Gerald Ford
16 File:Maria Downs (cropped).jpg Maria Downs[19] 1975–1977
17 File:No image wide.svg Gretchen Poston[20] 1977–1981 Jimmy Carter
18 File:No image wide.svg Mabel (Muffie) Brandon[21] 1981–1983 Ronald Reagan
19 File:Gahl Hodges (cropped).jpg Gahl Hodges[22] 1983–1985
20 File:No image wide.svg Linda Faulkner[23] 1985–1989
21 File:No image wide.svg Laurie Firestone[24] 1989–1993 George H. W. Bush
22 File:AnnStock.jpg Ann Stock[25] 1993–1997 Bill Clinton
23 File:Capricia Marshall.jpg Capricia Marshall[26] 1997–2001
24 File:No image wide.svg Catherine Fenton[27] 2001–2004 George W. Bush
25 File:Lea Berman DIG14214-012.jpg Lea Berman[28] 2005–2007
26 File:No image wide.svg Amy Zantzinger[29] 2007–2009
27 File:Desirée Rogers (cropped).jpg Desirée Rogers[30] 2009–2010 Barack Obama
28 File:Julianna Smoot (cropped).jpg Julianna Smoot[31] 2010–2011
29 File:Jeremy Bernard.jpg Jeremy Bernard[32] 2011–2015
30 File:Deesha Dyer in the Green Room of the White House (cropped).jpg Deesha Dyer[33] 2015–2017
31 File:No image wide.svg Anna Cristina Niceta Lloyd[34] 2017–2021[35] Donald Trump
32 File:Carlos Elizondo.jpg Carlos Elizondo[36] 2021–present Joe Biden

References

  1. ↑ Brian Bolduc (2011-02-25). "White House Names First Male Social Secretary". NATIONAL REVIEW Online. http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/260751/white-house-names-first-male-social-secretary-brian-bolduc. 
  2. ↑ Dunham, Richard S. (February 25, 2011). "Texan makes history as Obama social secretary". Houston Chronicle. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7446898.html. 
  3. ↑ Henderson, Nia-Malika; Bacon, Perry Jr. (February 25, 2011). "Obama makes history with social secretary pick". The Washington Post. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2011/02/white-house-announces-jeremy-b.html. 
  4. ↑ "TR Center - Isabella Hagner". http://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Learn-About-TR/TR-Encyclopedia/Family-and-Friends/Isabella-Hagner.aspx. 
  5. ↑ "Alice Blech | Social Secretary Alice Blech. October 22, 1909…". Flickr. 29 May 2012. https://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehousehistory/7372065116/. 
  6. ↑ "Walsenburg World March 17, 1910 — Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection". https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/cgi-bin/colorado?a=d&d=WWW19100317-01.2.26. 
  7. ↑ "Social Secretary Quotes: Belle Hagner - White House Historical Association". 1903-10-24. https://www.whitehousehistory.org/photos/social-secretary-quotes-belle-hagner. 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 "Social Secretary Quotes: Edith Benham Helm - White House Historical Association". 1903-10-24. https://www.whitehousehistory.org/photos/social-secretary-quotes-edith-benham-helm. 
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Social Secretary Quotes: Laura Harlan - White House Historical Association". https://www.whitehousehistory.org/photos/social-secretary-quotes-laura-harlan. 
  10. ↑ "Archived copy". https://www.archives.gov/files/publications/prologue/2015/summer/depriest.pdf. 
  11. ↑ MaryAnne Borrelli (15 August 2011). The Politics of the President's Wife. Texas A&M University Press. pp. 62–. ISBN 978-1-60344-422-4. https://books.google.com/books?id=6jSAGtVvcoUC&pg=PA62. 
  12. ↑ "Oral History of HONORABLE FRANK Q. NEBEKER". August 12, 2003. http://dcchs.org/FrankQNebeker/081203.pdf. 
  13. ↑ [1][dead link]
  14. ↑ "ST-C186-1-63. First Lady's Social Secretary Nancy Tuckerman - John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum". https://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKWHP-ST-C186-1-63.aspx. 
  15. ↑ "Reliable Source - Quoted: LBJ social secretary Bess Abell on her one White House dinner crashing problem". 2010-05-07. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/reliable-source/2010/05/quoted_lbj_social_secretary_be.html. 
  16. ↑ Katharine Q. Seelye (2020-10-18). "Bess Abell, Social Secretary in Johnson White House, Dies at 87". https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/18/us/bess-abell-dead.html. 
  17. ↑ "Lucy A. Winchester". https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresearchers/find/textual/central/smof/winchester.php. 
  18. ↑ "Nancy Lammerding, Ford Aide, Is Married to L. Nicholas Ruwe". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/1975/02/14/archives/nancy-lammerding-ford-aide-is-married-to-l-nicholas-ruwe.html. 
  19. ↑ "Maria Downs". Gerald R. Ford Foundation. 2009-06-18. http://geraldrfordfoundation.org/centennial/oralhistory/maria-downs/. 
  20. ↑ Blau, Eleanor (1992-01-08). "Gretchen Householder Poston, 59, Ex-White House Social Secretary". https://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/08/us/gretchen-householder-poston-59-ex-white-house-social-secretary.html. 
  21. ↑ Ginsburg, Ina (1981-05-17). "A Conversation With Muffie Brandon". The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1981/05/17/a-conversation-with-muffie-brandon/f7d6fde6-ef80-4412-9f34-e6fb971d05d1/. 
  22. ↑ "Social Secretary Quotes: Gahl Hodges Burt - White House Historical Association". https://www.whitehousehistory.org/photos/social-secretary-quotes-gahl-hodges-burt. 
  23. ↑ "FAULKNER, LINDA: Files, 1981-1989 – REAGAN LIBRARY COLLECTIONS". https://reaganlibrary.archives.gov/archives/textual/smof/faulkner.htm. 
  24. ↑ "Social Secretary Quotes: Laurie Firestone - White House Historical Association". https://www.whitehousehistory.org/photos/social-secretary-quotes-laurie-firestone. 
  25. ↑ "The Role of the White House Social Secretary". https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2009/02/04/DI2009020402268.html. 
  26. ↑ "Social Secretary Quotes: Capricia Marshall - White House Historical Association". https://www.whitehousehistory.org/photos/social-secretary-quotes-capricia-marshall. 
  27. ↑ Irvin Molotsky (2001-01-09). "Laura Bush Designates Keepers of Her Calendar". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/09/us/laura-bush-designates-keepers-of-her-calendar.html. 
  28. ↑ "Social Secretary Quotes: Lea Berman - White House Historical Association". https://www.whitehousehistory.org/photos/social-secretary-quotes-lea-berman. 
  29. ↑ "President Bush Names Amy Zantzinger as White House Social Secretary". whitehouse.gov. 2007-01-30. https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2007/01/20070130-2.html. 
  30. ↑ "White House announces resignation of social secretary Desirée Rogers". https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/26/AR2010022603734.html. 
  31. ↑ "White House social secretary Desiree Rogers resigns; Julianna Smoot named successor". 2010-02-27. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/27/AR2010022702019.html. 
  32. ↑ Perry, Mark. "Jeremy Bernard to step down as White House social secretary". Politico. http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/jeremy-bernard-white-house-social-secretary-kgb-file-116743. 
  33. ↑ "White House Announces Deesha Dyer as Social Secretary". whitehouse.gov. 2015-04-16. https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/04/16/white-house-announces-deesha-dyer-social-secretary. 
  34. ↑ Betsy Klein (February 8, 2017). "Melania Trump hires White House social secretary". CNN. http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/08/politics/melania-trump-cristina-niceta-lloyd-white-house-social-secretary/index.html. 
  35. ↑ FiveThirtyEight (2021-01-05). "Live Updates: Unrest In Washington And The Electoral Vote Certification" (in en-US). https://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/georgia-senate-election-results/. 
  36. ↑ Michael Crowley (November 20, 2020). "Biden-Harris team announces additional staff appointments". New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/20/us/joe-biden-trump/biden-harris-team-announces-additional-staff-appointments. 

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