Harold McEwen Ickes (/ˈɪkiːz/; born September 4, 1939) is the former White House Deputy Chief of Staff for President Bill Clinton.

[3] Ickes has been active in Democratic politics for over forty years, working in the presidential campaigns of Eugene McCarthy, Birch Bayh, Morris Udall, Ted Kennedy and Jesse Jackson.

[6] In his government relations practice, Mr. Ickes provides counsel and representation to business and union clients on legislative, governmental regulation and procurement matters.

[7] Along with Basil Paterson,[8] the former New York Secretary of State, State Senator, and the New York City Deputy Mayor for Labor Relations and Personnel, Mr. Ickes co-chairs the firm’s extensive labor practice, providing counsel to dozens of local and international unions in the health care, transportation, package delivery, hotel, construction, communications, distribution, manufacturing, retail food, and other industries in the private and public sectors.

[12] In November 2009, Ickes joined New York Governor David Paterson's election campaign as a senior adviser.

'[14] When Erskine Bowles was appointed Chief of Staff after Clinton's 1996 re-election, he requested to have input in choosing his subordinates, and so Ickes was dismissed from his position.

[17] As a member of the DNC's Rules Committee he was a proponent of adding other states besides Iowa and New Hampshire early on in the Presidential nominating calendar.

[20] The option of appeal and a convention fight was rendered moot, as Clinton suspended her campaign and endorsed Obama on June 7.