Overview

• David Gergen died on July 10, 2025, at age 83 in Massachusetts after battling Lewy body dementia.
• He served in the administrations of Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton, advancing from speechwriter to counselor to the president.
• In the early 2000s he founded the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership and remained professor emeritus until his death.
• Gergen was a senior political analyst for CNN and won multiple Peabody Awards for his election coverage.
• A private burial is set for Mount Auburn Cemetery and a larger memorial service will be held at Harvard Kennedy School in the coming weeks.