Karl Rove - Fast Facts - CNN.com (CNN) -- Here's a look at the life of Karl Rove, architect of George W. Bush's gubernatorial and presidential campaigns. Personal: Birth date: December 25, 1950 Birth name: Karl Christian Rove Father: Louis, a geologist Mother: Reba (Wood) Rove Marriages: Darby Hickson (January 25, 1986-December 2009, divorced); Valerie Wainwright (July 1976-January 1980, divorced) Children: with Darby - Andrew Education: Attended - University of Utah, 1969-1971; University of Maryland, 1972; George Mason University, 1973-1975; University of Texas at Austin, 1977 Other Facts: Other Rove clients have included: Arnold Schwarzenegger, John Ashcroft, and former Congressman and Senator Phil Gramm. Rove never completed college. President George W. Bush gave Rove several nicknames, including "Boy Genius" and "Turd Blossom." Karl was adopted by Louis Rove, his stepfather. Careers upon leaving the White House include paid speaker, columnist for Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal and political analyst for Fox News. Timeline: November 1973 - Karl Rove first meets George W. Bush. 1974 - George H. W. Bush hires Rove as an assistant. 1977 - Rove works on the gubernatorial campaign of Bill Clements, who became Texas's first Republican governor in 1978 in a century. 1980 - George H.W. Bush invites Rove to join his presidential campaign team. 1981-1999 - President of Karl Rove & Company in Austin. 1993-2007 - Adviser to George W. Bush and serves as senior adviser from 2000 to 2007. 1994 - Manages Bush's run for governor of Texas and re-election in 1998. 2000 - Manages George W. Bush's run for president. 2000-2007 - Senior adviser to President Bush. July 2003 - Various news articles name Valerie Plame, as a CIA secret operative involved search for weapons of mass destruction in Africa. An anonymous, senior White House official is the source. August 2003 - Plame's husband, U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson states that it was Rove who leaked her identity. 2004 - Engineers George W. Bush's reelection campaign. 2004-2007 - Deputy Chief of Staff to President George W Bush. October 16, 2004 - Testifies before a grand jury pertaining to the CIA leak of Plame's identity. February 8, 2005 - Is promoted to deputy White House chief of staff in charge of policy, national security, and homeland security. June 12, 2006 - Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald faxes a letter to Rove's attorney, Robert Luskin, informing him that Rove will not be charged in the CIA leak case. July 13, 2006 - Rove is named in a federal civil lawsuit, along with Vice President Dick Cheney, Scooter Libby, and a number of unnamed defendants, by Valerie Plame and Joseph Wilson. The suit contends Plame was the victim of intentional and malicious exposure and that both she and Wilson "suffered a violation of rights guaranteed them under the United States Constitution and the laws of the District of Columbia." August 13, 2007 - Resigns as deputy chief of staff and senior adviser to President George W. Bush, effective August 31st. December 13, 2007 - A Senate panel finds Karl Rove in contempt of Congress for refusing to testify and release documents in the investigation into the firings of nine U.S. attorneys. May 22, 2008 - The House Judiciary Committee subpoenas Rove, ordering him to testify regarding allegations he was a key player in pressing the Department of Justice to dismiss some U.S. attorneys and to prosecute Democrats. He does not appear at the July 10th hearing. May 2009 - Rove is questioned by special prosecutor Nora Dannehy about his role in the firings of U.S. attorneys in 2006. July 2009 - Rove testifies for two days in a closed session before the House Judiciary Committee about the firings of U.S. attorneys. March 9, 2010 - Rove's book, "Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight," is released. April 2010 - Co-founds, with Ed Gillespie, pro-GOP PAC American Crossroads.