1. Major Elliott Garrett was born on August 24,1962 and is an American journalist who is chief Washington correspondent for CBS News.
10 Facts About Major Garrett
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Major Garrett covered the 2004 presidential election, the War on Terror, and the 2008 presidential election, and he is a fill-in and substitute anchor for CBS Evening News, and Face the Nation.
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Major Garrett was born and raised in San Diego, California, where he attended James Madison High School.
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Major Garrett graduated from the University of Missouri with a Bachelor of Journalism and a Bachelor of Science in political science in 1984.
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Major Garrett has been a White House correspondent for CNN and an award-winning reporter across the country for the Houston Post, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, and the Amarillo Globe-News.
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Major Garrett's articles have appeared in such magazines as The Weekly Standard, Washington Monthly, and Mother Jones.
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On January 13,2009, Major Garrett became the senior White House correspondent for the Fox News Channel.
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Major Garrett left Fox News on September 3,2010, to join National Journal.
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Major Garrett was named CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent in December 2018.
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Major Garrett is married to Lara Brown and lives in Washington, DC.