Know All About Susan Collins Husband Thomas Daffron!

Thomas Daffron is a lobbyist who worked at Jefferson Consulting Group in Washington, DC as the chief operating officer from 2006 to 2016 and wildly known as the husband of Susan Collins- an American politician serving as the senior senator from Maine in the United States.

Thomas Daffron Quick Facts

Who Is Susan Collins Husband Thomas Daffron? Wiki, Biography

Thomas Daffron was born in New York, United States. Thomas attended Brown University where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. He then pursued his career at Columbia University where he obtained his master’s degree in journalism.

After his graduation, he became a reporter for the Miami Herald and wrote editorials for Wilmington News Journal.  He has worked as a reporter for a newspaper.

He worked as a copywriter for Chuck Percy and served as chief of staff for Senators Bill Cohen, Fred Thompson, Mon Udall, and Lisa Murkowski. He’s also worked for International Paper in Maine, the Baltimore Orioles, and Senator Susan Collins as a consultant.

Thomas Daffron Career Background

Thomas Daffron as a Journalist- His father was an editor at The New York Times, thus Thomas hails from a line of journalists. He attended Columbia Journalism School and went on to work for the Miami Herald as a reporter and the Wilmington News-Journal as an editorial writer. In 1969, he was awarded an American Political Science Association fellowship, which sent young journalists and academics to Capitol Hill for short-term assignments. Rep. Mo Udall of Arizona is a liberal Democrat, and Sen. Charles Percy of Illinois is a moderate Republican. 

Percy offered him a job after his stint. In 1973, he accepted a position with Cohen, a congressman from Maine who had just been elected. He served as his chief of staff for about two decades, on and off. He had left Cohen’s office twice before, once to work for International Paper in Augusta in 1988 and again in 1990 to become senior vice president of the Baltimore Orioles, where he remained until his boss, Eli Jacobs, sold the organization in 1993. Later, he worked as the head of staff for Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson. He was hired as the campaign manager for Elizabeth Dole’s 1999 presidential campaign after four years of working with Senator Thompson.

Thomas Daffron as a Lobbyist- Daffron is a registered lobbyist who has worked as a senior executive at two lobbying firms in the DC region. From 2001 until 2004, he served as executive vice president of Chesapeake Enterprises and worked as a lobbyist for Monster.com and other corporations. He also represented many companies seeking Pentagon and Homeland Security contracts through American Defense International.

He also worked for Jefferson Consulting Group as the chief operations officer, and he registered as a lobbyist for Unisys in 2006 and LexisNexis in 2007. Even though he is a registered lobbyist, he claims to have done virtually little lobbying. He supervised the firm’s administrative and financial duties, as well as day-to-day operations, while at Jefferson’s.

Thomas Jefferson Age, Birthday

Thomas Jefferson age is 73 years old as of 2022, he was born on January 23, 1949, in New York, United States. He celebrates his birthday every year on January 23. His zodiac sign is Aquarius.

Talking about his parents, he was born in Suffern, New York, to the late Katherine M. and Thomas A. Daffron. In the 1960s, his father worked for The New York Times as an assistant news editor and later as the managing editor of the International Edition in Paris. At the age of 83, he died of heart and kidney failure.

Thomas Jefferson Height, Weight

Thomas Jefferson has a height of 5 feet 4 inches and weighs 60 kg. 

Thomas Jefferson Married Life With His Wife Susan Collins!

Thomas previously married Margot Cory, his undergraduate love, in 1962. They then had three children from his first marriage. Later the couple divorced.

In 2012, Thomas married Susan Collins. Collins met Cohen in 1974 while interning in the congressional office of former Senator Bill Cohen. She was 21 years old at the time. Daffron found her internship application in a stack of papers that had been forgotten in a desk drawer. Her parents were both supporters of Cohen and served as mayors of Caribou, which her father represented in the state legislature.

He employed her as a junior legislative assistant once the internship ended. She was minority staff director of the nighttime committee on governmental affairs by the time she was 26 years old, a committee she would later chair as a senator. He also helped her win the Maine senatorial seat in 1996 when she entered electoral politics in her early forties.

” Somebody once said that the best person to marry is your best friend. This evolved from a working relationship to a friendship when I was working on her campaign and now to husband and wife. I’ve known her for a long time, which I think will be beneficial to us in the long run because there will be few surprises, as we know each other’s strengths and weaknesses”, Thomas said in an interview. 

How Much Is Thomas Jefferson Net worth 2022?

Thomas Jefferson has a very good amount by profession. He has a net worth estimated at $3 million dollars as of 2022.