Tom Bevan (publisher)

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Thomas C. Bevan is an American writer and media executive who is co-founder and, as of 2021, publisher of RealClearPolitics.

Bevan attended Princeton University, playing at defensive back for Princeton Tigers football and graduating with a bachelor's degree in history in 1991. [1] His Princeton senior thesis was A Deadly Society: Confederate Soldiers at Point Lookout Prison, July 1863 - June 1865. [2]

After graduating from Princeton, he worked as an advertising account executive in Seattle, Chicago, and Miami with Leo Burnett and Crispin Porter + Bogusky. [3] [4] In 1989 he met John McIntyre; the two founded RealClearPolitics in 2000. [5] [4] [6] In 2012 he co-authored, with Carl M. Cannon, The RealClearPolitics Political Download: Election 2012: The Battle Begins from Crown Publishing Group and, in 2018, was named number 23 on the Princeton Alumni Weekly's list of the 25 most influential alumni of Princeton University. [7] [8] As of 2021, Bevan is publisher of RealClearPolitics and also hosts a weekly radio show on WLS-AM. [9] [10]

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