Raymond Siller wrote for presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush Curt Smith wrote for President George H. W. Bush Tony Snow wrote for President George H. W. Bush Ted Sorensen wrote for President John F. Kennedy Ben Stein wrote for President Richard Nixon Marc Thiessen wrote for President George W. Bush Michael Waldman wrote for President Bill Clinton Orson Welles wrote for President Franklin D. Roosevelt Judson T. Welliver, considered the first official presidential speechwriter in the modern sense of the occupation, wrote for President Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge Mari Maseng Will wrote for President Ronald Reagan Fictional speechwriters Some fictional speechwriters include: James Hobert (played by Alexander Chaplin), speechwriter for the fictional Mayor of New York City Randall Winston on Spin City. Toby Ziegler (played by Richard Schiff), Sam Seaborn (played by Rob Lowe), and Will Bailey (played by Joshua Malina) all wrote for the Bartlet administration on The West Wing See also Ghostwriter, a professional writer who is paid to write books, articles, stories, or reports which are officially credited to another person Judson Welliver Society, a social club of former presidential speechwriters References External links Political occupations Writing occupations