 | Gibbs, who was born in Auburn Alabama, March 29, 1971. His parents are Robert and Nancy Gibbs, who worked for the Auburn University library system. |
Mr. Gibbs attended Auburn City Schools and graduated from AHS in 1989 At Auburn High, Gibbs played saxophone in the Auburn High School Band, goalkeeper on the Tigers' soccer team, and participated on the school's debate squad.
The Gibbs family lived in Auburn for 25 years, leaving in 1991 for North Carolina, where Gibbs then attended North Carolina State University, where he majored in political science. From 1990 through 1992, Gibbs was goalkeeper for the North Carolina State Wolfpack soccer team. Gibbs graduated from North Carolina State cum laude with a degree in political science
Robert's parents live in Apex, North Carolina. The elder Gibbs retired in 1992 as Auburn’s associate dean for libraries, and the family moved to North Carolina, where Nancy Gibbs is now head of acquisitions for the Duke University libraries.
Former U.S. Rep. Glen Browder of Jacksonville said he hired Gibbs for an internship in 1991 and Gibbs cut his teeth in politics as an aide to the Alabama congressman. He rose through the ranks of Browder's staff, rising to become the representative's executive assistant in Washington, D.C. Gibbs returned to Alabama in 1996 to work on Browder's unsuccessful Senate campaign that year
One of Gibbs’ early jobs was as press secretary for U.S. Rep. Bob Etheridge, a Lillington Democrat who hired Gibbs when the congressman’s first term began in 1997.
In 1998 Gibbs served as the communications director at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and as campaign spokesman for Senator Fritz Hollings (D-S.C.) . Gibbs also served as Communications Director for Senator Hollings
Robert worked on Senator Debbie Stabenow's 2000 Senate campaign.
Early in the 2004 presidential campaign, Gibbs was the press secretary of Democratic candidate John Kerry. On November 11, 2003, Gibbs resigned. Mr. Gibbs emphasized in an interview that he left the Kerry campaign, after a staff shake-up that left many embittered.
In 2004 after quiting Kerry, Mr. Gibbs became spokesman for a 527 political group, Americans for Jobs, Health Care and Progressive Values. formed to stop the 2004 presidential campaign of Howard Dean which launched attack ads against Dean, sponsored by the new Democratic group,
Gibbs is married. His wife, Mary Catherine Gibbs, is an attorney in Alexandria, Va. Gibbs lives in Alexandria, Virginia with her, and their five-year-old son, Ethan.
Gibbs, began working with President-elect Obama in April 2004 serving as Communications Director for his United States Senate race and later as his Senate Communications Director. Gibbs held the position of Communications Director for Obama’s presidential campaign until becoming Senior Strategist for Communications and Message during the general election.
| On November 22, 2008, it was announced by the Obama Transition Team that Gibbs would be the White House Press Secretary for the Obama administration. He assumed the role of press secretary on January 20, 2009, and gave his first official briefing on January 22. |  |
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