Hamilton Jordan (21 September 1944 – 20 May 2008) was Chief-of-Staff to President Jimmy Carter from 6 August 1979 to 12 June 1980, succeeding Dick Cheney and preceding Jack Watson.
Biography[]
Hamilton Jordan (pronounced "Jur-den") was born in Charlotte, North Carolina on 21 September 1944, and he was raised in Albany, Georgia. In 1967, he graduated from the University of Georgia with a political science degree, and he worked as a civilian volunteer during the Vietnam War, helping Vietnamese refugees. In 1970, he ran Democratic Party member Jimmy Carter's successful gubernatorial campaign in Georgia, and he also managed Carter's presidential campaign in 1976. Jordan was chosen to by Carter's Chief-of-Staff, and he was known to be fun-loving and partying; he was accused of cocaine usage, having anonymous sex at the Studio 54 disco in New York City, and staring at the breast of the Egyptian ambassador's wife and saying, "I always wanted to see the pyramids." In 1980, he failed in a bid to be elected to the US House of Representatives, and he later became a staffer on Ross Perot's 1992 presidential campaign.