Longtime Democratic aide and Massachusetts native Rufus Gifford will add yet another presidential campaign to his resume.
President Joe Biden on Monday tapped Gifford to serve as the finance chair on his 2024 reelection campaign. That marks a return to Biden’s team for Gifford, who was deputy campaign manager in 2020.
Gifford, who has roots in Manchester-by-the-Sea and Concord as well as a home on Nantucket, served as national finance director for President Barack Obama’s — and then-Vice President Joe Biden’s — 2012 reelection campaign.
Obama then tapped him as U.S. ambassador to Denmark, a role Gifford held from 2013 until 2017.
Gifford finished fifth in a 10-way Democratic primary for the Third Congressional District in 2018, a race won by Congresswoman Lori Trahan.
Biden also tapped former Congressman Cedric Richmond as campaign co-chair and Chris Korge as the Biden Victory Fund Finance Chair.
Gifford’s father, Chad, is a retired prominent banker who previously served as board chair for Bank of America
