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White House Press Secretary
Tony Snow

April 26, 2006
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Tony Snow

Tony Snow is the White House Press Secretary for the Bush administration. He succeeded Scott McClellan. In 1991, he servee as Director of Speechwriting and Deputy Assistant to the President for Media Affairs for President George H. W. Bush

He has spent a quarter of a century in the news business. He's worked in all three major media -- print, radio and television. He started his career in 1979 as an editorial writer for The Greensboro Record in North Carolina. He's going to -- went on to write editorials for The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk. He ran the editorial pages in both The Daily Press of Newport News and The Washington Times. He's written nationally syndicated columns for both The Detroit News and USA Today.

For seven years, he served as the host of "FOX News Sunday." Most recently, he reached Americans all across our country as the host of "The Tony Snow Show" on FOX News Radio, and "Weekend Live with Tony Snow" on the FOX News Channel.

Tony Snow was born in Berea, Kentucky, on June 1, 1955. He was raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, were his father taught social studies and was an assistant principal at Princeton High School. His mother was a nurse who died of colon cancer in 1973 when he was 17 years old. After graduating from Princeton High School in Sharonville, Ohio, Snow obtained his Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from Davidson College in 1977. He taught physics and geography in Kenya, and was a substitute teacher in Cincinnati, teaching everything from calculus to art. He also worked as an advocate for the mentally ill and developmentally disabled in North Carolina.

He is an avid musician. He plays the flute, saxophone and guitar, and belongs to a cover band, Beats Workin'.

He is married to Jill Ellen Walker. They have one son, two daughters, three dogs, a cat and three guinea pigs. They live in Virginia.


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