Emanuel MacRae

Emanuel John-Michael Frederick MacRae (born December 21, 1976) is the 46th and current President of the United States.

He was born at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland; the son of Frances MacRae (née Naughton), a pediatrician, and John-Michael MacRae, professor of neuroscience at The Johns Hopkins University. MacRae graduated from Baltimore City College in June of 1994 at the age of 17. He went on to The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. MacRae graduated from The Wharton School in 1998 with a Bachelor of Science in Economics. Shortly afterwards, he was hired by the Congressional Budget Office as a research assistant. As an assistant analyst in the Budget Analysis Division, MacRae conducted baseline estimates and analyses of proposed legislation pertaining to federal budget accounts that he managed. He also assisted in long-term research projects by analyzing data and academic literature.

MacRae left the Congressional Budget Office in 2000 and enrolled in the three-year dual Master of Public Policy-Master of Business Administration program at Georgetown University. Shortly after earning both his Master of Public Policy from the McCourt School of Public Policy and his Master of Business Administration from the McDonough School of Business in 2003, he rejoined the Congressional Budget Office as an analyst. MacRae accepted a position in the Projections Unit of the Budget Analysis Division. After two years as a budget analyst, he left the Congressional Budget Office in 2005 and joined the Washington, D.C. office of Goldman Sachs as an associate in its Investment Banking Division. A year later, MacRae married Bridget Troy, a high school English teacher who is 24 years his senior. In 2009, he was promoted to the position of a vice president at the Goldman Sachs office.

In January of 2011, MacRae left Goldman Sachs and was appointed to the position of Chief of Staff to the United States Secretary of the Treasury. In December of 2012, he was announced as the nominee for the position of Director of the Office of Management and Budget by the President-elect of the United States, Frank Holland. MacRae was confirmed by the United States Senate in February of 2013. On August 31, 2015, President Holland announced that he would not seek a second term. On April 6, 2016, MacRae resigned from his position as director of the OMB. The next day, he declared his candidacy for the U.S. presidency as an independent. In his announcement speech, MacRae called for a "democratic revolution" and promised to "unblock America".

On July 29, he announced the selection of Christine Gardner, former President of the World Bank Group, as his vice-presidential running mate. On Tuesday, November 8, 2016, MacRae was elected 46th president of the United States, defeating Republican candidate, Senator Marina Penn and the Democratic candidate, former Secretary of Education Benedict Hammond. At 39 years old, he was the youngest person elected President of the United States. MacRae received 280 votes in the Electoral College and 45.1% in the popular vote. He was inaugurated and sworn into the presidency by Chief Justice of the United States John G. Roberts on January 20, 2017. At 40, he became the youngest President in American history. MacRae is also the first person elected to the U.S. presidency as a political independent since George Washington.