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Joseph Duggan
Joseph Patrick Duggan (born July 5, 1955) is a writer, academic lecturer and former White House and U.S. State Department official.

Early life and education
Duggan was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Martin L. Duggan and Mary Margaret "Mae" Mosher Duggan. His father is a broadcaster and former newspaper editor: producer and "provocateur" (host) of the political discussion program on KETC-TV Channel 9 (PBS) in St. Louis, 1985-present, and posts including news editor and editorial page editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat 1941-1984. His mother is a writer and political activist, founder in 1959 of one of the first organizations to promote school choice, Citizens for Educational Freedom. He graduated from De Smet Jesuit High School in St. Louis in 1973; from the University of Dallas, B.A. in classics, 1976; and the Institute of World Politics, (Washington, D.C.), M.A., 2007.

Journalism
He was assistant managing editor of The American Spectator, 1976-77; editorial writer for the Greensboro Record (North Carolina), 1977-79; and Richmond Times-Dispatch, 1979-1981. In 1980 he won first place in the editorial writing competition of the Virginia Press Association. He has written by-lined guest columns for daily newspapers including The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, New York Post, Los Angeles Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Houston Chronicle, Austin American-Statesman, Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star. Recently he has written articles for RealClearMarkets.com and The American Spectator Online.

Government
In 1981 he joined the Reagan administration as an advisor on refugee affairs to Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick at the United States Mission to the United Nations in New York. In 1983 he transferred to Kirkpatrick's State Department office in Washington and worked a speechwriter. Following Ambassador Kirkpatrick's resignation in 1985, he worked as chief speechwriter and director of the speechwriting staffs for Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Dole and two Secretaries of Agriculture, John Block and Richard Lyng. He returned to the State Department in 1986 as public affairs and political advisor to Ambassador Edward L. Rowny, Reagan's special advisor for arms control matters. In 1991-92, he worked in the White House on Tony Snow's staff as a speechwriter for President George H.W. Bush.

In January 1993, he went to Capitol Hill as a legislative aide and communications director for Rep. Christopher Cox (R-CA). During the 1994 off-year elections he was policy and communications director for Richard B. Cheney at his political action committee, the Alliance for American Leadership. Following the election of the Republican congressional majorities, he was communications and policy director of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. From 2002-09 he was a senior policy advisor at the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Public Affairs Consulting
From 1995-98 he was vice president and director of the media relations practice for the public affairs firm Powell Tate, and later senior vice president of DCS Group, the public affairs subsidiary of Dutko Worldwide.

Academia
In the spring term of 2009, he was a visiting professor in politics and communication in the "Líderes Académicos" program at Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) - Campus Estado de México, in the northern suburbs of Mexico City. In the fall term of 2008, he was visiting professor at Universidad de Celaya, Estado de Guanajuato, México. He also has been a guest lecturer at the Institute of World Politics, Bowdoin College, The Johns Hopkins University, Skidmore College, Universidad de Santa María (Caracas), and The George Washington University. His academic writing includes articles in the Latin American communications studies journal Razón y Palabra and the University Bookman. He wrote the entry on Huntington Cairns for the Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law (Roger K. Newman, editor, Yale University Press, 2009).

Personal
He is married to Lucía Landa Rangel, a native of Mexico City. They have a daughter, Rita Verónica Duggan y Landa. He has two sons from a previous marriage, James J. L. Duggan and E.S. Wilson Duggan.