Louise Thornton

Template:Character Louise Janine Thornton was a major advisor of Matthew Santos's presidential campaign.

She was born in Trenton, New Jersey as the youngest of four children (she has three older brothers). Her father was the athletic director and football coach of the high school her and her brothers attended and her mother was a dental hygenist. She was on the debate team and was known for usually winning the debates. She took Spanish and French during high school and became near fluent in the two languages. She graduated valedictorean from high school before going to Syracuse University for Communications. She spent the second half of her junior year learning abroad (where she became fluent in both Spanish and French) and cover the Olympics for Syracuse's newspaper, radio station, and television channel. After Syracuse she got her masters in Communication at the University of Pennsylvania while also working for Women's Word a weekly magazine for the empowerment of woman, as well as support of single or abused mothers, and young women.

After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania she moved to New York and became the Assistant to the Media Director for Women's Word before moving up to become Media Director. When Maureen Hogan the CEO of Women's Word decided to run for Congress she made Louise the media director for her campaign for Congress which was successful. Louise liked the fast-paced atmosphere of the campaign and stayed in politics working on four more Congressional campaigns, tw0 Senatorial campaign, and a Gubernatorial campaign. It was during her work with Congressman Lloyd Burnes' (the House Minority Whip) re-election campaign that she met Josh Lyman who was the Floor Manager for the House Minority Whip. She only lost two campaigns (one Congressional campaign and the Gubernatorial campaign Gelsey for Governor). After losing the gubernatorial campaign (despite it being hailed as a successful media campaign) she temporarily left politics to run The Patricia Lawrence Fund a charity for impoverished girls around the United States to go to college. She returned to politics in 2004 to run another congressional campaign that was successful. She ran another Senatorial campaign before going to work on the Santos for President campaign.

Following Matt Santos's election, Lou was appointed as White House Communications Director.