Background

• A native of Massachusetts, P.J. is married to a retired Air Force colonel and she is employed as a teacher, they have two children.
• P.J. is a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross

• Crowley was a spokesman for the United States government and United States military for 28 years, 11 of those years at the Pentagon and three at the White House.

• Crowley has served for 26 years in the United States Air Force, retiring at the rank of colonel in September 1999.

• Also Crowley is a veteran of Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. During the Kosovo conflict, he was temporarily assigned to work with then NATO Secretary General Javier Solana. (Source: CAP)

Professional Positions

• During the Clinton administration, Crowley was Special Assistant to the President of the United States for National Security Affairs, serving as Senior Director of Public Affairs for the National Security Council.

• Prior the National Security Council, P.J. was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs.

• Before joined American Progress, he served as a national spokesman for the property/casualty insurance industry, focusing on strategic industry issues that included the impact of terrorism on commercial insurance in the aftermath of the World Trade Center tragedy and to the effect of asbestos litigation on the broader economy. (Source: CAP)

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