Editing Andrew Card

{{Short description|American politician (born 1947)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
|name          = Andy Card
|image         = Andrew Card award crop.jpg
|caption       = Card in 2002
|office        = 5th President of [[Franklin Pierce University]]
|term_start    = January 12, 2015
|term_end      = August 1, 2016
|predecessor   = James Birge
|successor     = Kim Mooney
|office1       = Dean of the [[Bush School of Government and Public Service]]
|status1       = Acting
|term_start1   = July 5, 2011
|term_end1     = August 1, 2013
|predecessor1  = [[Ryan Crocker]]
|successor1    = Ryan Crocker
|order2        = 21st
|office2       = White House Chief of Staff
|president2    = [[George W. Bush]]
|term_start2   = January 20, 2001
|term_end2     = April 14, 2006
|predecessor2  = [[John Podesta]]
|successor2    = [[Joshua Bolten]]
|order3        = 11th
|office3       = United States Secretary of Transportation
|president3    = [[George H. W. Bush]]
|term_start3   = February 24, 1992
|term_end3     = January 20, 1993
|predecessor3  = [[Samuel K. Skinner]]
|successor3    = [[Federico Peña]]
|office4       = [[White House Deputy Chief of Staff]]
|president4    = George H. W. Bush
|term_start4   = January 20, 1989
|term_end4     = February 3, 1992
|predecessor4  = [[M. B. Oglesby]]
|successor4    = [[Henson Moore]]
|office5       = Director of the [[White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs]]
|president5    = [[Ronald Reagan]]
|term_start5   = May 2, 1988
|term_end5     = September 21, 1988
|predecessor5  = [[Gwendolyn King]]
|successor5    = [[Karen Spencer (politician)|Karen Spencer]]
|office6       = Member of the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]]
|term_start6   = January 1, 1975
|term_end6     = January 5, 1983
|predecessor6  = [[Charles M. McGowan|Charles McGowan]] (8th Norfolk)<br>[[Charles Decas]] (7th Plymouth)
|successor6    = [[Bill Keating (politician)|Bill Keating]] (8th Norfolk)<br>[[Emmet Hayes]] (7th Plymouth)
|constituency6 = [[Massachusetts House of Representatives' 8th Norfolk district|8th Norfolk]] (1975–1979)<br>[[Massachusetts House of Representatives' 7th Plymouth district|7th Plymouth]] (1979–1983)
|birth_name    = Andrew Hill Card Jr.
|birth_date    = {{birth date and age|1947|5|10}}
|birth_place   = [[Brockton, Massachusetts|Brockton]]<ref name="PublicOfficers">{{cite book |title=1975–1976 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts | url=https://archive.org/stream/publicofficersof19751976bost#page/114/mode/2up }}</ref><ref name="Nomination" /><ref name="FSU" /> or [[Holbrook, Massachusetts|Holbrook]],<ref>{{cite web
| url = https://www.chapman.edu/business/_files/about/card-bio-august-2018.pdf | title = Andrew H. Card, Jr.: Executive Biography | date = August 2018| website = chapman.edu | publisher = [[Chapman University]] | access-date = 13 Feb 2024
}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/government/card-bio.html | title=Andrew H. Card, Jr., Former White House Chief of Staff }}</ref> [[Massachusetts]], U.S.
|death_date    = 
|death_place   = 
|party         = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
|spouse        = Kathleene Card
|children      = 3
|education     = [[United States Merchant Marine Academy]]<br>[[University of South Carolina]] ([[Bachelor of Science|BS]])<br>[[Harvard University]]
}}
'''Andrew Hill Card Jr.''' (born May 10, 1947) is an American politician and [[Academic administration|academic administrator]] who was [[White House Chief of Staff]] under President [[George W. Bush]] from 2001 to 2006, as well as head of Bush's [[White House Iraq Group]]. Card served as [[United States Secretary of Transportation]] under President [[George H. W. Bush]] from 1992 to 1993.

Card announced his resignation as Chief of Staff on March 28, 2006, effective April 14, 2006. Card was the Acting Dean of the [[Bush School of Government and Public Service]], at [[Texas A&M University]] from 2011 to 2013. In 2014, Card became the president of [[Franklin Pierce University]], serving until he retired from that post in the summer of 2016.

==Early life and education==
Card was born on May 10, 1947, the son of Joyce (née Whitaker) and Andrew Hill Card, Sr.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://entertainment.silobreaker.com/biography-for-andrew-card-5_2258844257815101440_4 |title=Biography for Andrew Card |publisher=Silobreaker Entertainment|access-date=2011-06-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723024938/http://entertainment.silobreaker.com/biography-for-andrew-card-5_2258844257815101440_4 |archive-date=July 23, 2011 |df=mdy }}</ref> He was active in the [[Boy Scouts of America]]'s [[Old Colony Council]] and earned the rank of [[Life Scout]]. He grew up in [[Holbrook, Massachusetts]] and graduated from Holbrook High School in 1965.<ref name="FSU">{{cite news |last1=Razzaq |first1=Zane |title=Andrew Card, who told Bush the country was under attack, to speak at FSU |url=https://www.metrowestdailynews.com/story/news/education/2021/09/01/andrew-card-speak-framingham-state-mark-9-11-anniversary/5650723001/ |access-date=23 January 2024 |work=MetroWest Daily News |date=September 1, 2021}}</ref><ref name="Nomination">{{cite book |title=Nomination of Andrew H. Card., Jr., to be Secretary of Transportation |date=1992 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |location=Washington D.C. |page=17 |isbn=978-0-16-038777-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3d9vfKgMfjEC&pg=PA17 |access-date=23 January 2024}}</ref> He attended the [[United States Merchant Marine Academy]] from 1966 to 1967 before graduating from the [[University of South Carolina]] with a [[Bachelor of Science]] in [[civil engineering]] in 1971.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://millercenter.org/president/essays/card-1992-secretary-of-transportation|title = Andrew Card Jr. (1992–1993)|publisher=Miller Center|date = October 4, 2016}}</ref> He also attended the [[John F. Kennedy School of Government]] at [[Harvard University]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://franklinpierce.edu/about/andrew_card.htm|title=Hon. Andrew H. Card Jr|publisher=Franklin Pierce University}}</ref>

==Career==
===Early career===
Card got his start in politics serving in the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]] from 1975 to 1983.<ref name="PublicOfficers" /> He ran unsuccessfully for the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] nomination for [[Governor of Massachusetts]] in [[1982 Massachusetts gubernatorial election|1982]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Massachusetts Election Statistics 1982 | date=February 11, 1982 | url=https://archive.org/details/massachusettsele1982mass/page/130/mode/2up?view=theater }}</ref>

===Private career===
From 1993 to 1998, Card was president and [[chief executive officer]] of the [[American Automobile Manufacturers Association]] (AAMA), the trade association whose members were [[Chrysler Corporation]], [[Ford Motor Company]] and [[General Motors Corporation]]. The AAMA dissolved in December 1998. From 1999 until his selection as President Bush's Chief of Staff, Card was [[General Motors]]' Vice President of Government Relations. Card directed the company's international, national, state and local government affairs activities and represented GM on matters of public policy before [[United States Congress|Congress]] and the administration.

He serves on the [[board of directors]] of [[Union Pacific Railroad]].  The railroad announced on July 27, 2006, that Card was elected to the board, increasing the board's size to 10 members.<ref>{{cite web| author=Union Pacific Railroad| url=http://www.uprr.com/newsinfo/releases/financial/2006/0727_card.shtml| title=Union Pacific Corporation Elects Andrew Card a Director| date=July 27, 2006| access-date=July 28, 2006| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20060820071804/http://www.uprr.com/newsinfo/releases/financial/2006/0727_card.shtml| archive-date= August 20, 2006 | url-status= live}}</ref> He is also a senior counselor at public relations firm [[FleishmanHillard|Fleishman-Hillard]].<ref>The Hill (2009). [http://thehill.com/business--lobby/former-bush-chief-of-staff-card-joins-fleishman-2007-11-01.html Former Bush Chief of Staff Card joins Fleishman] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071202070642/http://thehill.com/business--lobby/former-bush-chief-of-staff-card-joins-fleishman-2007-11-01.html |date=December 2, 2007 }}. Retrieve August 9, 2009.</ref>

On November 7, 2019, he joined the board of directors<ref>{{Cite press release|url=https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2019/11/07/1943095/0/en/FORMER-WHITEHOUSE-CHIEF-OF-STAFF-AND-US-SECRETARY-OF-TRANSPORTATION-ANDREW-H-CARD-JR-JOINS-THE-BOARD-OF-DRAGANFLY-INC.html|title=FORMER WHITEHOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF AND US SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION ANDREW H. CARD, JR. JOINS THE BOARD OF DRAGANFLY INC.|date=November 7, 2019}}</ref> of Draganfly, industry-leading manufacturer within the commercial Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (“'''UAV'''”) and the Unmanned Vehicle Systems (“'''UVS'''”) space.

===Government career===

====Under Ronald Reagan====
Card first served in the West Wing under President [[Ronald Reagan]], as Special Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs and subsequently as Deputy Assistant to the President and [[White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs|Director of Intergovernmental Affairs]], where he was liaison to governors, statewide elected officials, state legislators, mayors and other elected officials.

====Under George H. W. Bush====
From 1989 to 1992, Card served in President [[George H. W. Bush]]'s administration as Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff. From 1992 until 1993, Card served as the 11th [[United States Secretary of Transportation|U.S. Secretary of Transportation]] under President Bush. In August 1992, at the request of President Bush, Secretary Card coordinated the administration's disaster relief efforts in the wake of [[Hurricane Andrew]]. Later that year, Secretary Card directed President Bush's transition office during [[Presidential transition of Bill Clinton|the transition]] from the Bush administration to the [[Clinton administration]].

====Under George W. Bush====
In 2000, Card was asked by [[Governor of Texas|Texas Governor]] George W. Bush to run the [[2000 Republican National Convention|Republican National Convention]] in [[Philadelphia]].

On November 26, 2000, Card was appointed to be chief of staff for President-elect George W. Bush upon Bush's January 20, 2001 [[inauguration]].

On September 11, 2001, Card approached Bush as he was visiting [[Emma E. Booker Elementary School]] in [[Sarasota, Florida]], and whispered in his ear the news that a second plane had hit the [[World Trade Center (1973-2001)|World Trade Center]], confirming that [[September 11 attacks|a terrorist attack]] was underway.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/28/AR2006032800416_2.html | newspaper=The Washington Post | title=OMB Head To Replace Card as Top Bush Aide | first=Michael A. | last=Fletcher | date=March 29, 2006 | access-date=April 25, 2010}}</ref> Card later recounted his story, saying that he whispered "A second plane hit the second tower. America is under attack."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna32782623 |first=Afsin |last=Yurdakul |work=NBC News |title=He told Bush that 'America is under attack' |date=September 10, 2009 }}</ref>

On March 28, 2006, the White House announced that Card would resign as Chief of Staff and be replaced by [[United States Office of Management and Budget]] director [[Joshua B. Bolten]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna12048598 | title=White House shake-up: Chief of staff resigns | date=March 28, 2006 | work=NBC News | agency=Associated Press | access-date=September 30, 2006 }}</ref> Card's resignation was effective April 14, 2006.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/government/card-bio.html | title= Andrew H. Card Jr., White House Chief of Staff, 2000–2006 | publisher=White House | access-date=September 30, 2006}}</ref> At 5 years and 84 days, his tenure as Chief of Staff was the second-longest in the office's history.

[[Image:JPII on bier.jpg|thumb|right|Card (far right), along with [[George W. Bush]], [[Laura Bush]], [[Bill Clinton]], [[George H. W. Bush]], and [[Condoleezza Rice]] pay their respects to Pope [[John Paul II]] before the [[Funeral of Pope John Paul II|pope's funeral]].]]

===Post-government career===
Card received an honorary degree from the [[University of Massachusetts Amherst]] on May 25, 2007. While accepting the degree, Card was booed loudly by students and faculty who deplored the choice to bestow the honor.<ref>{{cite news|title=Former Bush aide Card is booed at UMass|url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-05-27-card-umass_N.htm |access-date= April 3, 2011|newspaper=USA Today|agency=Associated Press|date=May 27, 2007}}</ref>

Card considered running in the [[United States Senate special election in Massachusetts, 2010|2010 special election]] to fill the [[United States Senate]] seat held by [[Ted Kennedy]], who had died in office. State Senator [[Scott Brown (politician)|Scott Brown]], who considered entering the race, promised to drop out if Card decided to run.<ref>{{cite news|last=LeBlanc|first=Steve|title=Card says he is considering run for Kennedy's seat|url=http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/card-says-he-is-134721.html|access-date=April 3, 2011|newspaper=Atlanta Journal-Constitution|agency=Associated Press|date=September 9, 2009}}</ref> Card announced on September 11, 2009, that he would not enter the race and that he was throwing his support to Brown, who went on to win the election.<ref>{{cite news|title=Former Bush Aide Card Not Seeking Kennedy Seat|url=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/12/bush-aide-card-seeking-kennedy-seat/?test=latestnews|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102142622/http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/12/bush-aide-card-seeking-kennedy-seat/?test=latestnews|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 2, 2012|access-date=April 3, 2011|publisher=Fox News|agency=Associated Press|date=September 12, 2009}}</ref>

On July 5, 2011, Card was named acting dean of [[The Bush School of Government and Public Service]] at [[Texas A&M University]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Andrew Card Named Acting Dean Of Bush School At Texas A&M|url= http://bush.tamu.edu/news/index.php/story/andrew_card_named_acting_dean_of_bush_school_at_texas_am |publisher=Texas A&M University}}</ref>

In 2014, Card was selected as the fifth president of [[Franklin Pierce University]] in [[Rindge, New Hampshire]].<ref>{{cite news |title= Andrew Card named president of Franklin Pierce University|url=http://www.wmur.com/news/andrew-card-named-president-of-franklin-pierce-university/29920788?absolute=true| access-date= November 25, 2014|website= WMUR.com|date=November 25, 2014}}</ref> He began his tenure in December 2014, and resigned in summer of 2016.

Since December 2023, Card has served as the Chief Executive Officer of the George & Barbara Bush Foundation.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Secretary Andrew H. Card, Jr. |url=https://georgeandbarbarabush.org/people/secretary-andrew-h-card-jr |access-date=2024-10-17 |website=George & Barbara Bush Foundation}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Card is married to Reverend Kathleene Card. They reside in [[Jaffrey, New Hampshire]].<ref name= PUMC>{{cite web| url= https://www.peterboroughumc.org/leadership/reverend-kathleene-card/| title= Reverend Kathleene Card| website= peterboroughumc.org| date= March 28, 2018| publisher= Peterborough United Methodist Church| place= Peterborough, New Hampshire| access-date= January 6, 2021}}</ref> They have three grown children and six grandchildren.<ref name= PUMC />

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