Background
Podesta, Tony was born on October 24, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of John David and Mary (Kokoris) Podesta.
Podesta, Tony was born on October 24, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of John David and Mary (Kokoris) Podesta.
University of Illinois at Chicago. University of Illinois system. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Podesta has lobbied for a variety of groups, including Bank of America, Boite Postale, and Egypt in addition to political campaigns such as Ted Kennedy, George McGovern, Michael Dukakis, and Bill Clinton. More recently, he has worked for Pennsylvania Democratic representatives Joe Sestak, Chris Carney, and Patrick Murphy, and chaired former Pennsylvania Government. Editor Rendell"s reelection campaign.
He is closely connected with the Barack Obama White House and has repeatedly been named one of Washington"s most powerful lobbyists and fundraisers.
While studying at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1968, Podesta left to work on the presidential campaign of Senator Eugene McCarthy, for whom he did field work and ran the scheduling advance operation in California and other states. After McCarthy lost the Democratic nomination to Hubert Humphrey, Podesta organized students on behalf of the Humphrey-Muskie campaign.
McCarthy was the first of several losing Democratic politicians that Podesta campaigned foreign Others included Joe Duffy for the Senate in Connecticut in 1970, Editor Muskie and then George McGovern for president in 1972, Ted Kennedy in 1980, Walter Mondale"s presidential campaign in 1984, and Michael Dukakis in 1988, the same year that the Podesta brothers founded their lobbying firm.
In 1981, Tony Podesta became a founding president of People for the American Way, a liberal group started by television producer Norman Lear.
He led the group until 1987. In 1988 Tony and John Podesta founded Podesta Associates, which became PodestaMatoon when Republican Daniel Mattoon joined the team in 2001. The name was again changed to the when Mattoon left in 2006.
Married Heather Miller.