Biography

Marie Elizabeth Harf

Posted on Dec 2, 2021, Modified : Nov 30, 2021 Prasansha Ojha

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Marie Elizabeth Harf is best known as the liberal political commentator for the Fox news channel. However, she has also worked as the senior advisor of Strategic Communication in the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.

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Full Name	Marie Elizabeth Harf
Date of Birth	June 15, 1981
Birth Place	Chicago, Illinois, U.S
Father	James E. Harf
Mother	Jane Ax Harf
Profession	News Reporter
Spouse	Joshua Paul Lucas (2012-)
Age	39 years old
Weight	5 ft 6 inches
Height	56 kg
Nationality	American
Zodiac	Gemini
Ethnicity	White
Net Worth	$799,103 US dollars

Early life

Marie Elizabeth Harf was born on June 15, 1981, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. She was born to her mother, Jane Ax Harf, from Granville, Ohio, and her father, James E. Harf, from St. Louis, Missouri. Her father works as a vice president and the Center for Global Education director at Maryville University. The personality is quite secretive about her personal life and has not been confirmed about her siblings.

She is very well educated, and she graduated her high school in 1999 from Granville High School. She attended Indiana University Bloomington and graduated with a B.A. in Political Science with Jewish Studies and Russian and Eastern European Studies. She also has a master’s degree in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia.

Her thesis on the continuation of regime stability in Saudi Arabia was very well appreciated. Since her childhood, she has been interested in mass communication and journalism and was very determined to achieve her goal.

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Personal details

Marie Elizabeth Harf will be 40 years old very soon. She is 5 ft 6 inches tall, is very conscious about her weight, and weighs 56 kg. Her body measurement is 36-25-35, where 36 inches is her breast size, 25 inches is her hips, and 35 inches is her waist size. She has blonde hair and beautiful blue eyes.

She is adaptable, outgoing, intelligent, generous, hard-working, and ambitious like a Gemini. She holds American nationality and belongs to the white ethnic group. She enjoys playing basketball, traveling, reading books, and cooking. Her favorite holiday destination is Sweden and European countries. Her lucky number is 4.

How did Marie Elizabeth Harf start her Career?

Marie Elizabeth Harf started her Career as an analyst who focused on Middle Eastern Leadership Issues at the Directorate of Intelligence at CIA. After some period, she became the media spokesperson of the CIA. She has even helped the former U.S. president Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election. She helped the former president craft national security and communication strategy. During that period, she also served as the spokesperson of the campaign on national security issues.

Her talents and hard work attracted the Department of State, and later, in June 2013, she was appointed as the Deputy Spokesperson in the department under Jen Psaki. She was replaced by retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral John Kirby as deputy spokesperson at the states’ department in April 2015.

After being replaced, she worked as the Senior Advisor for Strategic Communications to the Secretary of State John Kerry. She continued her work which led to the Iran nuclear negotiations communications strategy.

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She served as the political commentator for Fox News Channel in January 2017. After serving for two years, she resigned from the job and started to work for Rep. Seth Moulton’s failed Presidential Campaign. The campaign was soon suspended, and she was appointed in the position of executive director of progressive Serve America PAC, which Seth Moulton founded. Currently, she is working at Fox News, where she returned in 2019 as an essential contributor.

Controversies

Marie Elizabeth Harf interview on Hardball with Chris Matthews, which focused on the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, gained controversies due to her comments on the beheading of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians in Libya, where she said war could not be won by killing people instead, one should help each other by generating employment and uplifting the economy.

Relationship

Marie Elizabeth Harf is happily married to Joshua Paul Lucas. The couple got married on April 14, 2012. They do not have a child yet. There is no rumor about the separation.

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Net Worth

Marie Elizabeth Harf is a highly talented journalist, and her salary is $81,107 US dollars per year. Her estimated net worth is $799,103 US dollars. Her source of income is news reporting and journalism.