Leavitt is the youngest White House press secretary in U.S. history, a record previously held by Ronald Ziegler, who assumed the role in 1969 under former President Richard Nixon at age 29.

Among the many White House press secretaries in history, a few went on to make names for themselves outside of the ...

The current White ... secretary is the youngest person to be the White House press secretary at the age of 27, beating out ...