Jeffrey Trammell

Jeffrey B. Trammell is an American lobbyist and communications and public affairs consultant. He has served as an advisor to US presidential candidates and as Rector of the College of William & Mary.

Early life

Trammell is originally from Blountstown, Florida. He attended the College of William & Mary on a basketball scholarship. At William & Mary, he captained the men's basketball team and was a member of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. He graduated in 1973 with a BA in history.

Career

Over the course of his career, Trammell has worked on the presidential campaigns of Al Gore and John Kerry, as well as the gubernatorial campaign of Terry McAuliffe in Virginia. In 2001, he founded Trammell & Company, a Washington, D.C. based lobbying firm, having previously worked as senior managing director for Hill & Knowlton. Along with Congressman Barney Frank and attorney Chad S. Johnson, he helped found the National Stonewall Democrats.

From 2011 to 2013, Trammell served as the Rector of the Board of Visitors of the College of William & Mary. He was initially appointed to the board in 2005 by Mark Warner and reappointed in 2009. He was the first openly gay board chair in the country. As rector, he lobbied the Virginia government to allow the state's public universities to provide benefits to same-sex partners of employees.

Jeff

Jeff is a short form of the English given name Jeffrey, which derives from a medieval variant of Geoffrey. Jeff is especially used in the US and Canada.

Music

EarthBound

EarthBound, known as Mother 2 in Japan, is a 1994 Japanese role-playing video game co-developed by Ape Inc. and HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System video game console. As Ness and his party of four, the player travels the world to collect melodies en route to defeating the evil alien force Giygas. It is the second game of the Mother series, and the only one to be released in the English language until its predecessor was released under the name EarthBound Beginnings in 2015 as part of Wii U's Virtual Console.EarthBound was released in Japan on August 27, 1994, and in North America on June 5, 1995.

The game had a lengthy development period which spanned five years. Its making involved a number of Japanese luminaries, including writer Shigesato Itoi, musician/songwriter Keiichi Suzuki, sound designer Hirokazu Tanaka, and future Nintendo president Satoru Iwata. Themed around an idiosyncratic portrayal of Americana and Western culture, it subverted popular role-playing game traditions by featuring a real world setting while parodying numerous staples of the genre. Itoi, who directed the game, wanted it to reach non-gamers with its intentionally goofy tone. It was heavily marketed upon release via a promotional campaign which sardonically proclaimed "this game stinks".

List of American Dad! characters

This article lists characters from the adult animated series American Dad! alongside corresponding descriptions.

Main characters

Stan Smith