US EditionConservatives Mourn Death of Heritage Foundation Founder
WASHINGTON, D.C., JUL 19 – Feulner led the Heritage Foundation for 37 years, shaping conservative policy and mentoring leaders while advancing initiatives like Project 2025 for future Republican administrations.
- Edwin J. Feulner, founder and long-serving president of the Heritage Foundation, died on Friday, a leading U.S. conservative think tank announced.
- Feulner founded the Heritage Foundation in 1973 to establish a conservative intellectual outpost and led it as president for 37 years until 2013.
- Under Feulner's leadership, the Foundation became the intellectual force behind the Reagan Revolution and shaped the modern conservative movement across generations.
- Senator Mitch McConnell called Feulner 'a great man' whose dedication to peace through strength during the Cold War provides 'an enduring lesson', while Steve Scalise termed him 'an architect who built the conservative movement.'
- Feulner's death prompted widespread tributes highlighting his legacy as a visionary and patriot whose influence will persist through the Foundation's ongoing impact on American conservatism.
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Ed Feulner — A Conservative Hero Passes - Liberty Nation News
By Tim Donner While it went largely unnoticed over the weekend amid the non-stop frenzy of the Trump presidency, one of the chief architects of the 1980s Ronald Reagan revolution quietly passed on at the age of 83. While he was not widely known outside the beltway, Edwin J. Feulner was acknowledged by friend and foe alike as […]
Heritage Foundation Founder Edwin Feulner Passes Away at 83
Former President and co-founder of the American conservative think tank Heritage Foundation Edwin Feulner passed away at age 83 on Friday, 18 July. Edwin J Feulner was born in Chicago, Illinois on 12 August 1941, into a devout Roman Catholic family. His political career started in 1967, at age 26 as a staff member for Congressman Melvin Laird, a Republican from the state of Wisconsin who later became Secretary of Defence under President Nixon. F…
Edwin Feulner, Heritage Foundation’s ‘George Washington,’ Dies at 83
Edwin J. Feulner Jr., a right-wing congressional aide who felt himself in the ideological “wilderness” in the 1970s, but who, as the co-founder of the Heritage Foundation and its leader for most of its existence, became one of the most influential figures of a resurgent conservative movement, died on Friday. He was 83. The Heritage Foundation announced his death in a statement that did not specify where he died or the cause. Mr. Feulner (pronoun…
Ed Feulner, RIP – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
“Russia is Spain with a lot of nuclear weapons,” Ed Feulner quipped during a 47-minute conversation we had five years ago. I recorded the interview, which I re-listened to while news of his death reached me while vacationing in (of all places) Spain, as research for a book that finally comes out next month, The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer. The big story that he told involved the big meeting: a 23-year-old F…
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