Trump election: The people around the president-elect

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Vice-President elect Mike Pence

The Indiana governor, 57, is charged with leading the team deciding the key appointments in the new administration.
He is a favourite among social conservatives who boasts considerable experience in Washington.



Mr Pence was raised Catholic along with his five siblings in Columbus, Indiana.
He told the Indianapolis Star in 2012 that liberal icons John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr had inspired him to begin a career in politics.
Describing himself as "a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order", he voted for Democrat Jimmy Carter in 1980.
He has said it was not until college when he met his future wife, Karen, at an evangelical church that his views began to shift.
Mr Pence has served as governor of Indiana since 2013 but also has 12 years of legislative experience as a member of the House of Representatives.
During his final two years in Washington, he served as the chair of the House Republican Conference, the third highest-ranking Republican leadership position.
He also chaired the Republican Study Group, a coalition of conservative House Republicans, which could give him a boost with some evangelicals of the party that have questioned Mr Trump's ideological purity, according to the BBC's Anthony Zurcher.
Who is Mike Pence?

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Reince Priebus - chief of staff

Mr Trump's White House gatekeeper is 44 years old.
As chairman of the Republican National Committee, he was a bridge between the Republican nominee and a party establishment that was embarrassed by its own presidential standard-bearer.
But he has never held elected office and brings no policy experience to the White House in a role serving as a liaison to cabinet agencies.
Mr Priebus is close to House Speaker Paul Ryan, a fellow Wisconsinite, who could be instrumental in steering the new administration's legislative agenda.

Stephen Bannon - chief strategist

Though not a cabinet appointment, Mr Bannon, 62, could wield immense influence behind the scenes as one of Mr Trump's key advisers.
The Breitbart News executive will be the president's senior counsellor, though he will work as "equal partners" with Mr Priebus, creating twin power bases in the West Wing.
A number of critics have accused Mr Bannon, a former Goldman Sachs banker, of promoting extreme views.
The firebrand conservative helped transform Breitbart into the leading mouthpiece of the party's fringe, anti-establishment wing.
The combative site serves up an anti-establishment agenda that critics accuse of xenophobia and misogyny. Under Mr Bannon, it has become one of the most-read conservative news and opinion sites in the US.

Born in Virginia in 1953, Mr Bannon spent four years in the navy before completing an MBA at Harvard. He then went into investment banking and, after a spell with Goldman Sachs, moved successfully into media financing.
He shifted into film production, working in Hollywood before branching out into independent political documentary making, paying homage to former US President Ronald Reagan, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and the Tea Party movement.
Through this work he met Andrew Breitbart, a staunchly conservative media entrepreneur who wanted to create a site that challenged what he saw as liberal-dominated mainstream media.
When Andrew Breitbart died of a heart attack in 2012, Mr Bannon took over as head of Breitbart News and drove it forward.
The 'John Wayne' of politics

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John Bolton - secretary of state?

At 67, the former US ambassador to the United Nations has years of foreign policy experience.
But he has raised eyebrows with some of his hawkish stances, calling last year for Iran to be bombed in order to halt its nuclear programme.
He told Fox News this week he has had no contact with the transition team.