White House Chief of Staff

Rahm Emanuel, the current White House Chief of Staff.

The White House Chief of Staff is the highest-ranking member of the Executive Office of the President of the United States and a senior aide to the President.

List of White House Chiefs of Staff

#	Chief	President	Years
1	John R. Steelman	Harry Truman	1946–1952
2	Sherman Adams	Dwight Eisenhower	1953–1958
3	Wilton Persons		1958–1961
-	vacant	John F. Kennedy	1961–1963
u/o	W. Marvin Watson	Lyndon Johnson	1963–1968
u/o	Jim Jones		1968
4	H. R. Haldeman	Richard Nixon	1969–1973
5	Alexander Haig		1973–1974
6	Donald Rumsfeld	Gerald Ford	1974–1975
7	Dick Cheney		1975–1977
-	vacant	Jimmy Carter	1977–1979
8	Hamilton Jordan		1979–1980
9	Jack Watson		1980–1981
10	James Baker	Ronald Reagan	1981–1985
11	Donald Regan		1985–1987
12	Howard Baker		1987–1988
13	Kenneth Duberstein		1988–1989
14	John H. Sununu	George H. W. Bush	1989–1991
15	Samuel K. Skinner		1991–1992
16	James Baker		1992–1993
17	Mack McLarty	Bill Clinton	1993–1994
18	Leon Panetta		1994–1997
19	Erskine Bowles		1997–1998
20	John Podesta		1998–2001
21	Andrew Card	George W. Bush	2001–2006
22	Joshua Bolten		2006–2009
23	Rahm Emanuel	Barack Obama	2009-