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FreedomWorks
ORGANIZATION Key "Tea Party" group founded July 2004 by the merger of Citizens for a Sound Economy with Empower America. "FreedomWorks, led by former U.S. House Majority Leader Dick Armey, has an unrivalled ability to reach opinion leaders and elected officials with innovative policy ideas and effective strategies for change. FreedomWorks drives policy change by training and mobilizing grassroots Americans to engage their fellow citizens and encourage their political representatives to act in defense of individual freedom and economic opportunity." Armey quit the group in 2012.
Official Website:
http://www.freedomworks.org/
Location:
Washington, DC
Founding Date:
2004
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Dick Armey |
Politician |
7-Jul-1940 |
|
US House Majority Leader, 1995-2003 |
| Haley Barbour |
Politician |
22-Oct-1947 |
|
Governor of Mississippi, 2004-12 |
| Louis Beecherl |
Business |
10-Feb-1926 |
5-Jul-2011 |
CEO, Texas Oil & Gas 1957-77 |
| William Bennett |
Government |
31-Jul-1943 |
|
Former Drug Czar and gambling man |
| Norman Brinker |
Business |
3-Jun-1931 |
9-Jun-2009 |
CEO of Brinker International, 1983-95 |
| James H. Burnley IV |
Government |
30-Jul-1948 |
|
US Secretary of Transportation, 1987-89 |
| Donald J. Carty |
Business |
23-Jun-1946 |
|
CEO of American Airlines, 1998-2003 |
| Harlan Crow |
Business |
1950 |
|
Chairman and CEO, Crow Holdings |
| Richard J. Egan |
Business |
28-Feb-1936 |
28-Aug-2009 |
Co-Founder, EMC Corporation |
| Foster Friess |
Business |
2-Apr-1940 |
|
Friess Associates |
| C. Boyden Gray |
Government |
6-Feb-1943 |
|
Conservative activist, lobbyist |
| Lanny Griffith |
Lobbyist |
13-Aug-1951 |
|
Lobbyist, Barbour Griffith & Rogers |
| John P. Harbin |
Business |
17-Jul-1917 |
27-Jul-2014 |
CEO of Halliburton, 1972-83 |
| Ray L. Hunt |
Business |
6-Apr-1943 |
|
Chairman of Hunt Oil |
| Herb Kelleher |
Business |
12-Mar-1931 |
|
Founder of Southwest Airlines |
| Jack Kemp |
Politician |
13-Jul-1935 |
2-May-2009 |
American politican, football player |
| Matt Kibbe |
Activist |
c. 1963 |
|
President and CEO of FreedomWorks |
| Lew Lehrman |
Business |
15-Aug-1938 |
|
Rite Aid drugstore founder |
| Tom Loeffler |
Politician |
1-Aug-1946 |
|
Congressman from Texas, 1979-87 |
| John Palmer |
Diplomat |
1934 |
|
US Ambassador to Portugal, 2001-04 |
| Bob Perry |
Business |
30-Oct-1932 |
13-Apr-2013 |
Perry Homes, Republican financier |
| T. Boone Pickens |
Business |
22-May-1928 |
|
Texas oilman, founded Mesa Petroleum |
| Richard W. Rahn |
Economist |
c. 1941 |
|
The End of Money |
| Thomas L. Rhodes |
Journalist |
c. 1941 |
|
President, National Review |
| Ed Rogers |
Government |
22-Nov-1958 |
|
Republican strategist |
| Donald Rumsfeld |
Government |
9-Jul-1932 |
|
US Secretary of Defense, 1975-77 and 2001-06 |
| Harold C. Simmons |
Business |
13-May-1931 |
28-Dec-2013 |
Drugstore billionaire |
| Robert E. Sweeney |
Politician |
4-Nov-1924 |
30-Jun-2007 |
Congressman from Ohio, 1965-67 |
| John M. Templeton, Jr. |
Relative |
19-Feb-1940 |
16-May-2015 |
Conservative philanthropist |
| Charles Wyly |
Business |
13-Oct-1933 |
7-Aug-2011 |
Billionaire, Michael's Stores |
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