What is Michael Gerson?
{{Infobox officeholder |name = Mike Gerson |image = Gerson.jpg |office = [[White House Director of Speechwriting]] |president = [[George W. Bush]] |term_start = January 20, 2001 |term_end = June 14, 2006 |predecessor = Terry Edmonds |successor = [[William McGurn]] |birth_name = Michael John Gerson |birth_date = {{birth date|1964|5|15}} |birth_place = [[Belmar, New Jersey]], U.S. |death_date = {{death date and age|2022|11|17|1964|5|15}} |death_place = [[Washington, D.C.]], U.S. |party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] |spouse = Dawn Gerson |children = 2 |education = [[Georgetown University]]<br>[[Wheaton College (Illinois)|Wheaton College, Illinois]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]]) }} '''Michael John Gerson''' (May 15, 1964 – November 17, 2022) was an [[op-ed]] [[columnist]] for ''[[The Washington Post]]'', a Policy Fellow with [[ONE Campaign|One Campaign]],<ref>{{cite news|last=Pulliam Bailey|first=Sarah|title=Faithfully and Politically Present|url=http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/article_print.html?id=89975|access-date=July 4, 2011|newspaper=Christianity Today|date=10 November 2010|archive-date=7 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200407033751/http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/article_print.html?id=89975|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=ONE Welcomes the Washington Post's Michael Gerson|url=http://www.one.org/c/us/pressrelease/3438|access-date=July 4, 2011|archive-date=November 28, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101128010401/http://www.one.org/c/us/pressrelease/3438|url-status=dead}}</ref> a visiting fellow with the [[Center for Public Justice]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Michael J. Gerson, Visiting Fellow|url=http://www.cpjustice.org/content/michael-j-gerson|access-date=September 22, 2012|archive-date=March 22, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150322094704/http://www.cpjustice.org/content/michael-j-gerson|url-status=dead}}</ref> and a former senior fellow at the [[Council on Foreign Relations]].<ref