Alfred S. Regnery | |
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| Born | (1942-11-21)November 21, 1942 (age 83) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Beloit College University of Wisconsin Law School |
| Occupations | 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]
Alfred S. Regnery was born on November 21, 1942, inChicago.[4] He is the son ofHenry Regnery (1912–1996), founder ofRegnery Publishing, a conservative publishing house founded in 1947.[2][3]
Regnery graduated fromBeloit College inBeloit, Wisconsin, in 1965 and received a J.D. from theUniversity of Wisconsin Law School inMadison, Wisconsin, in 1971.[2][3]
Early in his career, Regnery served as college director of theYoung Americans for Freedom, as a Senate aide, and theLands Division of theU.S. Department of Justice under PresidentRonald 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 toRepublican SenatorPaul Laxalt ofNevada and to theUnited 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 theUnited States Department of Justice.[2][3] In 1983, he was appointed by PresidentRonald Reagan as administrator of theOffice of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, and he worked on theMeese 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 toEagle Publishing and took a board position at Eagle. (Eagle Publishing was owned by Tom Philips, a Republican donor.) He was also a partner at theWashington, D.C.–based law firm Keller and Heckman LLP until 2003.[2][3][7]
From 2003 to 2012, Regnery was the publisher ofThe American Spectator.[2][3][7]
Regnery is managing director of the Paul Revere Project for Salem Eagle, a subsidiary ofSalem Communications (which also bought the Regnery imprint) and has served on Salem Eagle's board since 1993.[7]
In 1995, Regnery co-founded the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund; in 2014, he became chairman of its board, which includedEdwin Meese III,J. Kenneth Blackwell, Ron Hosko, andKen Cuccinelli as directors.[8] Currently[when?], he serves as chairman of the Board of Trustees of theIntercollegiate Studies Institute.[3][9]
Regnery served as trustee of thePhiladelphia 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]
In 1969, Regnery married Christina S. Sparrow, who died in 2007; they had four children.[11][12][13][14]
His cousin wasWilliam Regnery II, political activist and donor, founder of theNational Policy Institute (NPI), and employer (through NPI) ofRichard B. Spencer.[15]
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