Dale Haney

Dale Haney (born November 4, 1951) is an American gardener who is the superintendent of the White House grounds. In 2022, he celebrated his 50th anniversary tending to the 18 acres of White House gardens and grounds. He has also taken responsibility to walk presidential dogs from Richard Nixon's Irish Setter King Timahoe to Joe Biden's German Shepherd Commander.

Background Haney received a bachelor's degree in horticulture from Sandhills College at Pinehurst, North Carolina. He then accepted an internship at the Dumbarton Oaks historic estate in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. giving garden tours, preparing the grounds for events ranging from the White House Easter Egg Rolls to state arrival ceremonies, and tending to the plants in the Oval Office. and Joe Biden's German Shepherd Commander.

In 2022, Haney celebrated his 50th anniversary working at the White House. At the time, the White House History Quarterly published a special issue devoted to Haney's career,

On September 13, 2023, Dale Haney was bitten by Joe Biden's German Shepherd Commander. This resulted in the dog being evicted on October 5, 2023, from the White House.