Thomas S. Winter served as the president and editor-in-chief of Human Events . [1] [2] [3] [4]
Thomas Winter earned a bachelor's degree in 1959 and an MBA in 1961, both from Harvard University. [1] [2] He joined Human Events in 1961 at the age of 24 as an assistant editor. [1] [2] In 1964, he was named as the paper's editor, and in 1966 he became a co-owner and its president. [1] [2] [5] He assumed the title editor-in-chief in 1996. [1] [2]
Winter also served as vice chairman of the American Conservative Union and treasurer of the Conservative Victory Fund. [1] [2] [6]
In 2010, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award by The Phillips Foundation. [7]
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