Michael Gerson Biography
Michael Gerson is a Washington Post op-ed columnist, a One Campaign Policy Fellow, a Center for Public Justice visiting fellow, and a former senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. From 2001 until June 2006, he worked as President George W. Bush’s principal speechwriter, as a senior policy advisor from 2000 to June 2006, and as a member of the White House Iraq Group.
How old is Michael Gerson?- Age
Gerson is 58 years old as of May 2022. He was born Michael John Gerson on 15 May 1964, in Belmar, New Jersey, United States.
Michael Gerson Education
For high school, he went to Westminster Christian Academy. He spent a year at Georgetown University before transferring to Wheaton College in Illinois, where he graduated in 1986.
Michael Gerson Family – Parents
He was born Michael John Gerson in Belmar, New Jersey, United States. Gerson was raised in an Evangelical Christian family in St. Louis, Missouri. His paternal grandfather was Jewish.
Michael Gerson’s Wife- Married
He is happily married to his wife Dawn. The couple met in high school, have two sons, and reside in Northern Virginia.
Michael Gerson Career
He was a senior policy advisor at The Heritage Foundation, a conservative public policy research organization, before joining the Bush Administration. Before briefly quitting politics to cover it as a journalist for U.S. News & World Report, he served as an adviser to Indiana Senator Dan Coats and as a speechwriter for Bob Dole’s presidential campaign. Gerson also worked as a ghostwriter for Charles Colson at one point. Gerson was recruited for the Bush campaign by Karl Rove. Before 2000, Gerson worked as a speechwriter for the Bush campaign and then became the leader of the White House speechwriting team.
Gerson worked for Newsweek magazine after leaving the White House. Gerson started as a twice-weekly columnist for The Washington Post on May 16, 2007. On Wednesdays and Fridays, he writes a column. In his column, Gerson, a neo-conservative, has often insulted fellow conservatives, and conservatives have reciprocated. “Letting Fear Rule,” one of Gerson’s earliest essays, linked opponents of President Bush’s immigration reform measure to nativist bigots of the 1880s. President Trump’s “basic unfitness for high office” was mentioned by Gerson, who questioned whether he is “psychologically and morally equipped to be president?” Is it possible that his ineptitude will have a long-term negative impact on the country?” “Leaked cries for help from within the administration,” In August 2019, Gerson wrote that it is a “scandal” that “white evangelical Protestants” are not in a state of “panic” about their own demographic decline in the United States.
Michael Gerson’s Net Worth
Gerson has an estimated net worth of 1.5 million.