Alfred S. Regnery

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Alfred S. Regnery
Born (1942-11-21) November 21, 1942 (age 81)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Alma mater Beloit College
University of Wisconsin Law School
Occupation(s)Magazine publisher, writer, lawyer
Parent Henry Regnery
Relatives William H. Regnery (paternal grandfather)
William Regnery II (cousin)

Alfred S. Regnery (born November 21, 1942) [1] is an American conservative lawyer, former magazine publisher, and writer. [2] [3]

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Background

Alfred S. Regnery was born on November 21, 1942, in Chicago. [4] He is the son of Henry Regnery (1912–1996), founder of Regnery Publishing, a conservative publishing house founded in 1947. [2] [3]

Regnery graduated from Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin, in 1965 and received a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1971. [2] [3]

Career

Early in his career, Regnery served as college director of the Young Americans for Freedom, as a Senate aide, and the Lands Division of the U.S. Department of Justice under President Ronald Reagan. [5]

In 1976, Regnery ran for district attorney in Madison, Wisconsin. During that campaign, his wife reported several threatening phone calls. Regnery publicized allegations to the police that his wife had been injured and forced to have sexual acts with men who had broken into their home. During the investigation, police found no evidence to substantiate the claims and allegedly discovered a "stash of pornography" in the Regnery home. [5] [6]

Regnery served as a legal counsel to Republican Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada and to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. [3]

From 1981 to 1986, Regnery served as deputy assistant attorney general of the Land and Natural Resources Division of the United States Department of Justice. [2] [3] In 1983, he was appointed by President Ronald Reagan as administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, and he worked on the Meese Report. [2] On May 21, 1986, Regnery resigned his position as administrator "abruptly" to return to the family business. [5]

Regnery was president of Regnery Publishing from 1986 to 2003. In 1993, he sold Regnery Publishing to Eagle Publishing and took a board position at Eagle. (Eagle Publishing was owned by Tom Philips, a Republican donor.) He was also a partner at the Washington, D.C.-based law firm Keller and Heckman LLP until 2003. [2] [3] [7]

From 2003 to 2012, Regnery was the publisher of The American Spectator . [2] [3] [7]

Regnery is managing director of the Paul Revere Project for Salem Eagle, a subsidiary of Salem Communications (which also bought the Regnery imprint) and has served on Salem Eagle's board since 1993. [7]

Associations

In 1995, Regnery co-founded the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund; in 2014, he became chairman of its board, which included Edwin Meese III, J. Kenneth Blackwell, Ron Hosko, and Ken Cuccinelli as directors. [8] Currently[ when? ], he serves as chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. [3] [9]

Regnery served as trustee of the Philadelphia Society from 2011 to 2014. [3] [10]

Other entities with which he has been associated include the Committee for Western Civilization, American Foreign Policy Council, Americans for Tax Reform, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, International Policy Forum, Institute of World Politics, Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation, Leadership Institute, Westminster Institute, White House Writers Group, Hillsdale College, Morton Blackwell, James Lucier Jr., Robert R. Reilly, Robert Schadler, and Howard Segermark.[ citation needed ]

Personal life

In 1969, Regnery married Christina S. Sparrow, who died in 2007; they had four children. [11] [12] [13] [14]

His cousin was William Regnery II, political activist and donor, founder of the National Policy Institute (NPI), and employer (through NPI) of Richard B. Spencer. [15]

Works

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  1. ↑ "Ronald Reagan: Nomination of Alfred S. Regnery To Be Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention" . Retrieved 2 November 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Alfred Regnery, Publisher, The American Spectator; Author, The Ascendance of American Conservatism, Commonwealth Club of California, June 2, 2008
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Bio". Archived from the original on 8 November 2016. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
  4. ↑ "Nomination of Alfred S. Regnery To Be Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention". The White House. March 7, 1983.
  5. 1 2 3 Waas, Murray (23 June 1986). "Al Regnery's Secret Life". The New Republic. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
  6. ↑ Brock, David (18 May 2004). The Republican Noise Machine. Crown Publishers. ISBN   9781400080861 . Retrieved 8 November 2016.
  7. 1 2 3 "Alfred S. Regnery, Managing Director, The Paul Revere Project". Salem Eagle. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
  8. ↑ "Board of Directors". Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund. Retrieved 8 November 2016.
  9. ↑ "Team". Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
  10. ↑ "Past Trustees". Philadelphia Society. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
  11. ↑ Weeks, Linton (22 September 2002). "All Right Already". Washington Post. Retrieved 1 December 2018.
  12. ↑ "Alfred Regnery". NNDB. 22 September 2002. Retrieved 1 December 2018.
  13. ↑ "Christina S. Regnery". Washington Post. 24 April 2007. Retrieved 1 December 2018.
  14. ↑ "Christina S. Regnery". Washington Times. 24 April 2007. Retrieved 1 December 2018.
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