Tom Griscom
Tom Griscom | |
|---|---|
| White House Communications Director | |
| In office April 2, 1987 – July 1, 1988 | |
| President | Ronald Reagan |
| Preceded by | Jack Koehler |
| Succeeded by | Mari Maseng |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1949 (age 75–76) Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Education | University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (BA) |
Thomas Cecil Griscom (born 1949) served as Director of White House Communications under President Ronald Reagan, was a top aide and adviser for a decade to U.S. Senator Howard Baker of Tennessee, and was the executive editor and publisher of the Chattanooga Times Free Press from October 1999 to June 30, 2010.
Griscom served in the 1990s as the executive vice president for external relations for the RJ Reynolds Tobacco company, as an employee of Rupert Murdoch's News Ltd; and as a public relations consultant with Powell-Tate.
In December 1998, Fortune magazine's "The Power of 25: the influence merchants" named Griscom, along with other ex-White House staff, ex-politicians and sons-of-politicians, as a key lobbyist in Washington.
Griscom is a graduate of Brainerd High School and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.