Jack Watson (presidential adviser)

Jack Watson
Jack Watson
9th White House Chief of Staff
	In office; June 11, 1980 – January 20, 1981
President	Jimmy Carter
Preceded by	Hamilton Jordan
Succeeded by	James Baker
Personal details
Born	Jack Hearn Watson Jr.; October 24, 1938 (age 85); El Paso, Texas, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Education	Vanderbilt University (BA); Harvard University (LLB)

Jack Hearn Watson Jr. (born October 24, 1938) is an American corporate strategist and political aide who served as White House Chief of Staff to President Jimmy Carter from 1980 to 1981.

Personal life

Watson is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Vanderbilt University and received his law degree from Harvard Law School. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps as a Pathfinder and Reconnaissance Team Leader, First Force Reconnaissance Company, and left the Marine Corps with the rank of Captain.

Career

He served as head of the Carter-Mondale Policy Planning Group in 1976, and later was Director of the Transition Team during the transition of government from President Ford to President Carter. In the Carter administration from 1977 to 1981, he served as Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs, Secretary to the Cabinet, and White House Chief of Staff. He chaired the President's Interagency Coordinating Council created by Executive Order in 1978 to coordinate implementation of the President's domestic policy.