Background
His mother is Nancy Walker Bush Ellis, a sister of former President George H. W. Bush. Ellis grew up in Concord, Massachusetts and attended Milton Academy high school, he later went to Yale University.
journalist Governor of Florida
His mother is Nancy Walker Bush Ellis, a sister of former President George H. W. Bush. Ellis grew up in Concord, Massachusetts and attended Milton Academy high school, he later went to Yale University.
Ellis grew up in Concord, Massachusetts and attended Milton Academy high school, he later went to Yale University. He was an Appleman Fellow at the Shorenstein Center at Harvard University.
Ellis is married to Susan Smith Ellis, the Chief Executive Officer of (RED). In 1978, Ellis started working for National Broadcasting Company as a consultant. In the late 1990s he took a position with Fox News Channel.
After ten years he changed his job and became a consultant and op-ed columnist for The Boston Globe.
From 2002–2004, Ellis served as A Senior Fellow at the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. Election Night 2000 During the night of the 2000 United States. presidential election Ellis was working as a consultant for Fox News, where he analyzed data from the Voter News Service.
Fox News was the first (at 2:16 am ET) to call Florida for After the magazine interview was published, Fox News Vice President John Moody admitted that Ellis had broken rules by sharing the data and was considering disciplinary action. Ellis provided CBSNews.com with a copy of a letter he says he sent to the editor of the New Yorker.
In the letter, Ellis says that he “did not share with any of the information that was appearing on our screens" during two afternoon phone calls.
The letter says that later in the evening "as actual vote results" came in, Ellis spoke frequently with the Bushes about "what was happening” in several states. According to Ellis, other workers on the decision desk – “most of whom are registered Democrats” – were talking to the Gore campaign. Ellis says that he was ultra-scrupulous because of his relationship.
This controversy was picked up by, amongst others, Michael Moore in his 2004 film Fahrenheit 9/11.
In the last few years Ellis has worked in investment banking and is a partner in Kerr Creek Partners, and also is a contributing columnist to Real Clear Politics. According to an interview that Ellis gave to Jane Mayer of The New Yorker magazine in 2000, he was responsible for Fox News" decisions in calling states for Gore or Bush, based on statistical results from the VNS data.
Both Alexander Ellis and George Bush were members of Skull and Bones at Yale.
