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Home  › Programs  › Congressional Fellowship Program  › Contact Us  › Biography of Dr. Jeffrey R. Biggs Biography of Dr. Jeffrey R. Biggs DIRECTOR, APSA CONGRESSIONAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM Dr. Jeffrey Biggs has directed the Congressional Fellowship Program since 1997. He received a B.A. in History at Harvard, an M.A. in Political Science on a Fulbright from Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, and a Ph.D. in American Studies from George Washington University. Dr. Biggs served twenty-one years in the Foreign Service in Brazil, Portugal, and Bolivia. After being a Foreign Affairs APSA Congressional Fellow in 1985 (Congressman Thomas Foley, D-WA, and Senator Alan Simpson, R-WY), Dr. Biggs served on then-Majority Leader and later-Speaker Foley's senior staff as press secretary and spokesman from 1987 to 1994. Dr. Biggs also served as senior adviser to the President's Office of National Drug Control Policy and was a Visiting Fellow at the Freedom Forum. Dr. Biggs is married and has two daughters.