Major Elliott Garrett is a Congressional correspondent with the National Journal

National Journal

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. Prior to joining the National Journal he was the senior White House

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 correspondent for the Fox News Channel

Fox News Channel

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. He covered the 2004 presidential election

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, the War on Terror

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, and the 2008 presidential election

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 where he covered the Democratic primaries

Democratic Party (United States) presidential primaries

-1972:After the Chappaquiddick incident in 1969, Ted Kennedy fell from front runner to non-candidate. Ed Muskie was the establishment favorite until he was reported to have cried emotionally during a speech defending himself against the Canuck letter. George McGovern was able to gain ground and...

 and later Barack Obama

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 as the Democratic

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 nominee.

He is married to Julie Kirtz, a Washington, D.C. correspondent for Fox News weekend.

Biography

Garrett graduated, in 1984, with a Bachelor of Journalism

Bachelor of Journalism

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 degree and Bachelor of Science

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 degree in political science

Political science

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 from the University of Missouri

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. He is a member of the Fraternity Phi Gamma Delta

Phi Gamma Delta

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.

Garrett was a senior editor and congressional correspondent for U.S. News and World Report and a congressional reporter for The Washington Times in the 1990s before joining CNN's White House team in early 2000, and later moving to Fox in 2002 as a general assignment reporter. There, he covered the 2004 election, and served as the network's congressional correspondent. He has also been a White House

White House

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 correspondent for CNN

CNN

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, and an award-winning reporter across the country for Houston Post

Houston Post

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, Las Vegas Review Journal, and Amarillo Globe-News

Amarillo Globe-News

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. His articles have appeared in such magazines as The Weekly Standard, Washington Monthly, and Mother Jones

Mother Jones (magazine)

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. He currently lives with his family in Washington D.C.

Garrett covered Barack Obama's presidential campaign. On January 13, 2009, Garrett became the senior White House correspondent for the Fox News Channel

Fox News Channel

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Garrett left Fox News on September 3, 2010 to join National Journal

National Journal

National Journal is a nonpartisan American weekly magazine that reports on the current political environment and emerging political and policy trends. National Journal was first published in 1969. Times Mirror owned the magazine from 1986 to 1997, when it was purchased by David G. Bradley...

. His final day on Fox News was on America Live. He is also a frequent guest commentator on MSNBC

MSNBC

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External links

• Fox News bio (archived 2006)
• Garrett's Fox News blog
• MajoratWH Major Garrett on Twitter