Marie Harf Biography, Married, Husband, Height, Fox News Career

Publish date: 2024-04-01

Marie Harf is a Fox News Channel political commentator who once served as a policy strategist to former United States President Barack Obama.

the biography

The television personality was born Marie Elizabeth Harf, to her parents Jane Ax Harf and James E. Harf, who hail from St. Louis, Missouri. She was born on the 15th day of June 1981. She graduated from Granville High School in 1999. Marie’s father, James Harf, is Associate Vice President of the Center for Global Education at the University of Maryville. He is also a professor of political science at The Ohio State University in Columbus. Marie’s mother, a clean energy enthusiast, is currently the director of the Clean Energy Alliance of Ohio University.

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Marie Harf is a graduate of Indiana University Bloomington. She holds a bachelor’s degree in political science specializing in Jewish, Russian and Eastern European studies. She also holds a master’s degree in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia. His final thesis focused on the prospects for sustained and continued regime stability in Saudi Arabia.

His first job was as a CIA analyst, focusing on Middle East leadership issues at the Intelligence Directorate. During the 2012 presidential election, she joined President Barack Obama’s campaign organization, where she worked for the communications and national security strategy team. At one point, she served as campaign spokesperson on a variety of topics, including national security.

After the arrival of the Obama administration, Marie Harf was appointed deputy spokeswoman for the State Department, with Jen Psaki as spokesperson. After serving in this position in an acting position, she was later replaced by former United States Navy Rear Admiral John Kirby.

Her career then progressed on 1 st of June 2015, she took on a role as Senior Strategic Communications Advisor to Secretary of State John Kerry. She has made various diplomatic trips abroad with Secretary of State Kerry, visiting 5 continents and more than 30 countries.

Harf later became a political observer for the Fox News Channel in January 2017. She has been in the broadcasting industry for quite some time and she currently commands a salary of around $40,000, which is around $1 million.

In public, she has had her own share of controversy, she was criticized following comments she made during an interview with MSNBC’s Chris Mathews on ‘Hardball’ after the militant Islamic State published a video of the beheading of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians in Libya. She opined that America should fight the war by helping to create more jobs to deter Arabs from extremism, her comments sparked outrage on Twitter, leading to the hashtag of the day #jobsforISIS.

Mary Harf Height

Marie stands at a height of 5 feet 6 inches. She also has impressive vital stats of 36-26-35 inches.

Is Marie Harf married? Husband

Marie Harf got married in 2012 to Joshua PaulLucas in a Presbyterian church in Vienna. The Reverend Erin E. Bair, an Anglican priest and a longtime friend of the couple, joined the couple. After the marriage, Marie chose to keep her surname Harf. Her husband, Lucas, is currently completing his Masters in Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He graduated from Yale and is the son of Tricia H Lucas and John E. Lucas of Manchester, England.

Her father is a solicitor for the New Hampshire State Bureau of Legislative Services in Concord. As of now, the couple haven’t revealed anything regarding the kids and the general perception is that they’re just not ready to have kids yet and aren’t in a rush to push.

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Fox News Career

Marie Harf began her career at Fox in January 2017. She currently works with FOX News Channel (FNC) and Fox Business Network.

Marie made her first appearance on Fox News Channel on Marcha MacCallum’s program The First 100 Days. She gave her opinion on the term of President Donald Trump. Having served democratic governments, it will come as no surprise that his views are a bit skewed to the left.

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