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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Mitch Dudek

Sean O’Shea, a South Side native who worked at the White House under Clinton, dies at 46

Sean O’Shea and his husband, Sebastian Contreras, on their wedding day. (Provided)

Sean O’Shea had an endearing quality that, combined with grit and chutzpah, served as a lock-picking device of sorts on doors leading from his South Side home all the way to the White House.

“I am not exaggerating, the guy walked in our office and I think within the first day we were like ‘Who the ---k is this kid?’ He was amazing,” said Kris Balderston, who was Mr. O’Shea’s boss while he worked for a semester as a White House intern in the Office of Cabinet Affairs under former President Bill Clinton.

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