Key moments in Karl Rove's career

(CNN) -- Karl Rove, President Bush's senior political adviser, is to step down from his White House post at the end of the month. Here are the main landmarks of his career.

August 13, 2007 -- Rove announces his resignation in a newspaper interview. "I just think it's time," he tells Wall Street Journal naming his exit date as August 31.

July 13, 2006 -- Rove, along with Vice President Dick Cheney, Scooter Libby, and a number of unnamed defendants, is named in a federal civil lawsuit by Valerie Plame and Joseph Wilson. The suit contends Plame was the victim of intentional and malicious exposure and that both she and Wilson "suffered a violation of rights guaranteed them under the United States Constitution and the laws of the District of Columbia."

June 12, 2006 -- Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald faxes a letter to Rove's attorney, Robert Luskin, informing him that Rove will not be charged in the CIA leak case.

October 6, 2005 -- Luskin says that his client will appear for a fourth time before the grand jury investigating the Plame/CIA leak.

February 8, 2005 -- Is promoted to Deputy White House Chief of Staff in charge of policy, national security, and homeland security.

2004 -- Engineers George W. Bush's campaign for re-election as President.

October 16, 2004 -- Testifies before a grand jury pertaining to the leak of a CIA agent Plame's identity.

August, 2003 -- US Ambassador Joseph Wilson states that it was Rove who leaked the identity of his wife, Valerie Plame.

2000 -- Engineers George W. Bush's run for President.

1994 -- Manages Bush's run for Governor of Texas and re-election in 1998.

1993-present -- Senior Adviser to George W. Bush.

1981-1999 -- President of Karl Rove & Company in Austin.

1980 -- George H.W. Bush invites Rove to join his presidential campaign team.

1977 -- Rove works on the gubernatorial campaign of Bill Clements, who in 1978 became Texas's first Republican governor in a century.

1974 -- George H. W. Bush hires Rove as an assistant.

November, 1973 -- Karl Rove first meets George W. Bush. E-mail to a friend

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