David Axelrod Biography

David Axelrod is an American political consultant and analyst and former White House official. He is best known for being Barack Obama’s chief strategist in the presidential elections. Axelrod was named as Senior Advisor to the President after Obama’s inauguration.

David Axelrod Education

Axelrod attended the University of Chicago after graduating from Stuyvesant High School in New York in 1972, where he majored in political science. Axelrod wrote for the Hyde Park Herald as a student, reporting politics, and received an internship with the Chicago Tribune.

David Axelrod Career

Axelrod serves as director of the University of Chicago’s non-partisan Institute of Politics. In addition to that, he also serves as the host of his own podcast “The Axe Files” which is jointly produced by his institute and CNN. Furthermore, he worked for former president Barack Obama where he served as the senior advisor and former chief strategist. Axelrod previously worked for the Chicago Tribune where he served as a political writer. Whenever he is not working, he enjoys spending his free time with his family and friends.

David Axelrod Age

Axelrod is 69 years old. She was born on 22 February 1955 in Lower East Side, New York, United States. She celebrates her birthday on the 22nd of February every year.

David Axelrod Height

Axelrod has a height of 6 feet 1 inch (1.88 m).

David Axelrod Family

Axelrod was raised in a secular Jewish family and performed a bar mitzvah service at the Brotherhood Synagogue in Manhattan. His mother, Myril Bennett (née Davidson), was a PM journalist, a 1940s liberal daily, and later a Young & Rubicam advertising executive. His father, Joseph Axelrod, was a psychologist and an ardent baseball fan who, at the age of eleven, emigrated from Eastern Europe to the United States. In 1977, at the time of his graduation, he lost his father to suicide.

David Axelrod Wife

Axelrod met his future wife at the University of Chicago, business student Susan Landau, the daughter of science doctor Richard L. Landau, and they were married in 1979. In June 1981, their first child, a daughter, was diagnosed with epilepsy at the age of seven months. They have 2 other children.

David Axelrod Daughter

Axelrod’s daughter, Lauren was diagnosed with epilepsy at the age of seven months. Axelrod depicts her as experiencing brutal seizures and requiring a nonstop changing regimen of medications for some time. Due to this, she sustained a developmental disability. After attending high school for a few years, they struggled to locate programs that would keep her fulfilled and happy.

Fortunately, they found and placed her in Misericordia Home in 2002. Since 2021, Axelrod serves as an advocate for an accommodating, mixed approach to group homes and supportive environments for people like his daughter.

David Axelrod Net Worth

Axelrod has an estimated net worth ranging between $1 Million – $5 Million which he has earned through being a political consultant and analyst.

David Axelrod Salary

Axelrod earns an annual salary ranging from $40,000 – $ 110,500.

David Axelrod Podcast

David’s podcast, The Axe Files bring you a series of revealing interviews with key figures in the political world. Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.

David Axelrod CNN

Axelrod works at CNN where he works alongside other famous CNN anchors, reporters, meteorologists, and sports anchors including;

1. Jean Casarez
2. Dylan Byers
3. Katrina Pierson
4. Irin Carmon
5. Natasha Curry
6. Christi Paul
7. Bob Van Dillen
8. Reynolds Wolf
9. Kirsten Powers
10. Josh Campbell
11. Ryan Browne
12. Pamela Brown
13. Gloria Borger

The table below answers some of the frequently asked questions about Axelrod.