Rahm Israel Emanuel is an American politician. He served as the 55th mayor of Chicago from 2011 to 2019. Emanuel was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Chicago from 2003 to 2009. He was the 23rd White House Chief of Staff from 2009 to 2010. Emanuel’s father, Benjamin M. Emanuel, was a Jerusalem-born pediatrician.
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Rahm Israel Emanuel is an American politician. He served as the 55th mayor of Chicago from 2011 to 2019. Emanuel was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Chicago from 2003 to 2009. He was the 23rd White House Chief of Staff from 2009 to 2010. Emanuel’s father, Benjamin M. Emanuel, was a Jerusalem-born pediatrician at Michael Reese Hospital. His paternal grandfather was a Moldovan Jew who emigrated from Bessarabia. The surname Emanuel was adopted by their family in honor of his father’s brother Emanuel Auerbach, who was killed in 1933 in an altercation with Arabs in Jerusalem. He has a younger brother, Ari, who is the CEO of Endeavor, an entertainment agency with headquarters in Beverly Hills, California. His older brother Ezekiel, an oncologist and bioethicist at the University of Pennsylvania, described him as “quiet and observant” as a child. Emanuel has written that his father encouraged him to get the maximum out of himself at an early age, noting that the phrase ‘Rahm’ means ‘Thunder’ in Hebrew. He is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and Northwestern University. Emanuel is married to Marsha Emanuel, the daughter of a West Side Chicago union organizer who worked in the civil rights movement. He also has an adopted sister, Shoshana, who lives in New York City with her husband, Wilton Wilton, and their two children, Ari and Ari Emanuel, who live in Los Angeles with their mother, Marjorie “Michele” Emanuel, and a younger daughter, Ariah Emanuel.
The couple have a son, Abigail, who works as an executive at a private equity firm. Emanuel and his wife have a daughter, Abi, who has been married to Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel since 2008. He previously served as a director of the finance committee for Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign. Emanuel worked at the investment bank Wasserstein Perella & Co. from 1998 for 2½ years, and served on the board of directors of Freddie Mac. In 2002, Emanuel won the first of three terms representing Illinois’s 5th congressional district. In October 2010, Emanuel resigned as chief of staff to run as a candidate in Chicago’s 2011 mayoral election. Emanuel won with 55% of the vote over five other candidates in the non-partisan mayoral election, succeeding 22-year incumbent Richard M. Daley. In late 2015, Emanuel’s approval rating plunged to \”the low 20s\” in response to a series of scandals. These followed and were attributed to the police shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, the city’s subsequent attempts to withhold a video of the shooting, and the lack of an investigation into the matter. Emanuel initially announced in October 2017 he planned to run for a third term, but on September 4, 2018, he reversed his decision and announced that he would not seek aThird term due to personal obligations. He left office in May 2019 and was succeeded by Lori Lightfoot.
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