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Edward L. Widmer was born on 1963 in United States, is an American historian. Discover Edward L. Widmer's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 61 years old?
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Edward L. Widmer Net Worth
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Edward "Ted" Ladd Widmer (born 1963) is an American historian, writer, librarian, and musician who served as a speechwriter in the Clinton White House.
He serves on boards of the Harvard Lampoon, Massachusetts Historical Society and The New England Quarterly.
Edward Ladd Widmer was born in 1963 to Ellen and Eric Widmer.
He attended the Gordon School in East Providence until 1976, then the Moses Brown School in Providence, Rhode Island, graduating in 1980.
Widmer subsequently attended Harvard University where he obtained an A.B., A.M., and Ph.D. in the history and literature of France and the United States.
During his time at Harvard, he was an editor at the school's humor magazine, The Harvard Lampoon.
In 1990, Widmer's research on the origin of baseball was featured in The New York Times.
In 1992 Widmer married Mary Frederica Rhinelander, a printmaker and figurative artist.
Widmer was appointed a lecturer on history and literature at Harvard University in 1993 and worked in that capacity until 1997.
Between 1995 until 1997, he played guitar and vocals in a Boston hard rock band, the Upper Crust.
From 1997 to 2001, he worked in the White House as a special assistant to President Bill Clinton, foreign policy speech writer and Senior Advisor for Special Projects, which involved advising on history and scholarship related issues.
He later conducted extensive interviews with Clinton while the former president was writing his autobiography.
In 2001, Widmer was appointed the inaugural director of the C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College.
From 2001 to 2006, he served concurrently as an associate professor of history at the college.
During his tenure, Widmer established the George Washington Book Prize, an annual award for literature on the founding era of the United States.
On July 1, 2006, Widmer was appointed Director and Librarian of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University.
At the library, he led efforts to digitize the library's holdings and raised funding to save Haitian libraries in the wake of the 2010 earthquake.
Between 2010 and 2015, he helped to create and often contributed to The New York Times' series "Disunion," which focused on the Civil War.
From 2012 to 2013, Widmer was a senior advisor to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
In October, 2016, Widmer was appointed Director of the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress.
In 2018, he joined the faculty of Macaulay Honors College as a lecturer where he has led courses on Walt Whitman and The People of New York.
