Rahm Emanuel
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Rahm Emanuel (b. 1959) is an American politician from Illinois. Mr. Emanual is a Democrat. He served as President Clinton's chief of staff and as a US Congressman from Illinois' 5th district. He will be US President-elect Barack Obama's chief of staff starting in January, 2009. Mr. Emanual is Jewish. He and his wife Ann have three children:, Zacharias, Ilana, and Leah. Emanual has a bachelor's degree from Sarah Lawrence College (1981), and a master's degree in speech and communication from Northwestern University (1985).
Emanuel, who Obama has selected as his chief of staff, is the son of a terrorist in the radical Irgun group, who were responsible for the King David Hotel bombing.