Jacob Joseph Lew was born on August 29,1955 and is an American attorney and politician who served as the 76th United States Secretary of the Treasury from 2013 to 2017.
37 Facts About Jack Lew
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Jack Lew began his legal career as a legislative assistant to Representative Joe Moakley, and as a senior policy adviser to former House Speaker Tip O'Neill.
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Jack Lew then worked as an attorney in private practice before joining Boston's office of management and budget as a deputy.
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In 1994, Jack Lew served as Associate Director for Legislative Affairs and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget, then served as the agency's Director, from 1998 to 2001.
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Jack Lew then served as White House Chief of Staff for the remainder of President Barack Obama's first term from 2012 to 2013.
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On January 10,2013, during Obama's second term, Jack Lew was nominated to replace retiring Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, was confirmed by the Senate February 27,2013, and then sworn in on the following day, serving until the conclusion of the Obama administration.
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Jack Lew was succeeded as Secretary of the Treasury by Steven Mnuchin.
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Jack Lew is currently a visiting professor at the School of International and Public Affairs of Columbia University.
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Jack Lew was born in New York City, the son of Ruth and Irving Jack Lew.
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Jack Lew attended New York City public schools, graduating from Forest Hills High School.
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Jack Lew's father was a lawyer and rare book dealer who came to the United States from Poland as a child.
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Jack Lew attended Carleton College in Minnesota for a year, where his faculty adviser was Paul Wellstone, who eventually represented Minnesota in the US Senate.
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Jack Lew graduated from Harvard College in 1978 and the Georgetown University Law Center in 1983.
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Jack Lew practiced as an attorney for five years as a partner at Van Ness Feldman and Curtis.
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Jack Lew has worked as Executive Director of the Center for Middle East Research, Issues Director for the Democratic National Committee's Campaign 88, and Deputy Director of the Office of Program Analysis in the city of Boston's Office of Management and Budget.
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From February 1993 to 1994, Jack Lew served as Special Assistant to the President under Bill Clinton.
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Jack Lew was responsible for policy development and the drafting of the national service initiative and health care reform legislation.
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Jack Lew left the White House in October 1994 to work as OMB's Executive Associate Director and Associate Director for Legislative Affairs.
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From August 1995 until July 1998, Jack Lew served as Deputy Director of OMB.
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Jack Lew had crosscutting responsibilities to coordinate Clinton administration efforts on budget and appropriations matters.
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Jack Lew frequently served as a member of the Administration negotiating team, including regarding the Balanced Budget Act of 1997.
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President Clinton nominated Jack Lew to be Director of the OMB, and the United States Senate confirmed him for that job on July 31,1998.
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Jack Lew served in that capacity until the end of the Clinton administration in January 2001.
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Jack Lew represented the Administration in budget negotiations with Congress and served as a member of the National Security Council.
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In June 2006, Jack Lew was named chief operating officer of Citigroup's Alternative Investments unit, a proprietary trading group.
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Jack Lew had oversight of Citigroup subsidiaries in countries including, Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, and Hong Kong; and during his time at Citigroup, Citigroup subsidiaries in the Cayman Islands increased to 113.
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Jack Lew co-chaired the Advisory Board for City Year New York.
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Jack Lew is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Brookings Institution Hamilton Project Advisory Board, and the National Academy of Social Insurance.
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Jack Lew is a member of the bar in Massachusetts and the District of Columbia.
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Jack Lew was co-leader of the State Department's Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review.
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On July 13,2010, the White House announced that Jack Lew had been chosen to replace Peter Orszag as Director of the Office of Management and Budget, subject to Senate confirmation.
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On November 18,2010, Jack Lew was confirmed by the Senate by unanimous consent.
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On January 9,2012, President Obama announced that Lew would replace William M Daley as White House Chief of Staff.
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Jack Lew had invested heavily in funds in Ugland House, while he worked as an investment banker at Citigroup during the 2008 financial meltdown.
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In December 2013, Jack Lew said that the government might run out of cash to pay the country's bills by late February or early March 2014.
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In May 2014, Jack Lew received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Georgetown University, and spoke at the first commencement ceremony of the McCourt School of Public Policy.
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Jack Lew is an Orthodox Jew who observes the Jewish Shabbat and has attended Beth Sholom Congregation in Potomac, Maryland, TheShul of the Nation's Capital and Kesher Israel Congregation in Washington, DC, and the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale in the Bronx, New York.