Alex Castellanos

Alex Castellanos was born in Havana, Cuba in 1954 and immigrated to the United States in 1960 or 1961 with his family. Around the 1970s, Castellanos lived in Coats, North Carolina and attended Coats School, where he was taught by Mr. Garriss. He went on to attend the University of North Carolina where he was a National Merit Scholar and a philosophy major. Castellanos is married and has two children.\n', ' Castellanos has worked as a political consultant for Republican candidates for state and federal elections since the 1980s, including six presidential elections. In particular, he has received media attention for his work developing ads for political campaigns and is sometimes referred to as "the father of the attack ad".\n', ' Castellanos began his career working on the successful 1984 re-election campaigns for United States Senators Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond. While working on these campaigns Castellanos met Mike Murphy, with whom he later formed the firm Murphy & Castellanos. Their firm worked on Bob Dole\'s 1988 presidential campaign. In 1989, Castellanos became a partner at National Media, Inc.\n', '