rc hammond

wikifluff<div>R.C. Hammond (born 1979) is an American political strategist and communications director. He is currently a communications adviser for Secretary of State <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_Tillerson" title="Rex Tillerson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Rex Tillerson</a>. Hammond served as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_secretary" title="Press secretary" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">press secretary</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich" title="Newt Gingrich" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Newt Gingrich</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich_presidential_campaign,2012" title="Newt Gingrich presidential campaign, 2012" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2012 presidential campaign</a>. He previously served Gingrich at his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Solutions_for_Winning_the_Future" title="American Solutions for Winning the Future" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">American Solutions for Winning the Future</a> PAC. Hammond has worked as press secretary or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_director" class="mw-redirect" title="Communications director" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">communications director</a> for Senator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_H.Smith" title="Gordon H. Smith" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Gordon H. Smith</a>, Senator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_E.Sununu" title="John E. Sununu" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John E. Sununu</a> and Representative <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelly_Moore_Capito" class="mw-redirect" title="Shelly Moore Capito" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Shelly Moore Capito</a>. He founded R. C. Hammond Public Affairs in 2012.<div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1;"><div id="toctitle" class="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="background: none; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: 0px; display: inline; line-height: 1.3;">Contents</h2>  [<a role="button" tabindex="0" class="togglelink" style="background: none; cursor: pointer;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.C.Hammond#Early_life_and_education" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1Early life and education</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.C.Hammond#Career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2Career</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.C.Hammond#Early_political_career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.1Early political career</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.C.Hammond#Gingrich_2012_presidential_campaign" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.2Gingrich 2012 presidential campaign</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.C.Hammond#Consulting_firms" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.3Consulting firms</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.C.Hammond#Trump_administration" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.4Trump administration</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.C.Hammond#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.C.Hammond#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Early life and education[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=R.C.Hammond&action=edit&section=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Early life and education" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>Robert C. Hammond was born in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moultonborough,New_Hampshire" title="Moultonborough, New Hampshire" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Moultonborough, New Hampshire</a>. He graduated from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_University" title="George Washington University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">George Washington University</a> in 2002 with a BA in political communication.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.C.Hammond#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Career[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=R.C.Hammond&action=edit&section=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Early political career[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=R.C.Hammond&action=edit&section=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Early political career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>For 10 years, Hammond served as a political aide to Republican members of Congress. He worked as press secretary or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_director" class="mw-redirect" title="Communications director" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">communications director</a> for Senator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_H.Smith" title="Gordon H. Smith" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Gordon H. Smith</a>, Senator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_E.Sununu" title="John E. Sununu" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John E. Sununu</a> and Representative <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelly_Moore_Capito" class="mw-redirect" title="Shelly Moore Capito" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Shelly Moore Capito</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.C.Hammond#cite_note-Ebbert-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.C.Hammond#cite_note-Malony-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a> Hammond worked under Newt Gingrich at his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Solutions_for_Winning_the_Future" title="American Solutions for Winning the Future" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">American Solutions for Winning the Future</a> PAC.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.C.Hammond#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Gingrich 2012 presidential campaign[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=R.C.Hammond&action=edit&section=4&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Gingrich 2012 presidential campaign" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>Hammond served as the press secretary and national spokesman for Newt Gingrich's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich_presidential_campaign,2012" title="Newt Gingrich presidential campaign, 2012" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2012 presidential campaign</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.C.Hammond#cite_note-Politico1-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a> During the campaign, Hammond excluded national press from one of Gingrich's news conferences and refused to take questions from a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times" title="Los Angeles Times" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Los Angeles Times</a> reporter because of a story he had written.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.C.Hammond#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a> Following a campaign event in Alabama, Hammond threatened to withhold information from journalists if they wrote about Gingrich's unavailability to the press. Asked if he was withholding access if the press printed something he didn't want, he said "I've been doing that for the entire campaign."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.C.Hammond#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a>During the campaign, Hammond received national media attention for his repeated confrontations with Utah Congressman <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Chaffetz" title="Jason Chaffetz" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jason Chaffetz</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.C.Hammond#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.C.Hammond#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.C.Hammond#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico" title="Politico" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Politico</a> sarcastically referred to him as the "ever-lovable R.C. Hammond."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.C.Hammond#cite_note-Politico1-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a> The Los Angeles Times called Hammond a "political pit bull" and "sharp-tongued."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.C.Hammond#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Consulting firms[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=R.C.Hammond&action=edit&section=5&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Consulting firms" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>Hammond founded his own public affairs, crisis and media relations consulting firm, R. C. Hammond Public Affairs, in 2012.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.C.Hammond#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.C.Hammond#cite_note-O.27Dwyers-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a> He joined the public relations firm <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill%2BKnowlton_Strategies" title="Hill+Knowlton Strategies" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Hill+Knowlton Strategies</a> in 2014 as Vice President.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.C.Hammond#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a> In July 2016, Hammond joined The Herald Group, a DC consulting firm, as Vice President.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.C.Hammond#cite_note-O.27Dwyers-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.C.Hammond#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Trump administration[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=R.C.Hammond&action=edit&section=6&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Trump administration" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>Following the election of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Donald Trump</a>, Hammond was selected by the President-elect's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_transition_of_Donald_Trump" title="Presidential transition of Donald Trump" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">transition team</a> to guide then-Secretary of Defense nominee <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Mattis" title="James Mattis" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">James Mattis</a> through the Senate confirmation process.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.C.Hammond#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a>Hammond serves as a top communications adviser to Secretary of State <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_Tillerson" title="Rex Tillerson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Rex Tillerson</a> and a spokesperson for the United States Department of State.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.C.Hammond#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></div>