Margaret Hoover | |
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.jpg) Hoover in 2011 | |
| Born | Margaret Claire Hoover (1977-12-11)December 11, 1977 (age 48) Colorado, U.S. |
| Education | Davidson College Bryn Mawr College (BA) |
| Occupations | Political commentator, political strategist, media personality, journalist, author |
| Years active | 2001-present |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2 |
| Family | Herbert Hoover (great-grandfather) Lou Henry Hoover (great-grandmother) |
Margaret Claire Hoover (born December 11, 1977) is an American political commentator, political strategist, journalist, media personality, author, and great-granddaughter ofHerbert Hoover, the 31st U.S. president. She is author of the bookAmerican Individualism: How a New Generation of Conservatives Can Save the Republican Party, published byCrown Forum in 2011. Hoover hostsPBS's reboot of the conservative interview showFiring Line.
Margaret Hoover was born inColorado, the daughter of Jean (née Williams), a flight attendant, and Andrew Hoover, amining engineer.[1][2] She is the great-granddaughter of U.S. PresidentHerbert Hoover (1929–1933)[3] through her father, Andrew Hoover, and her grandfather,Allan Hoover.
Hoover received primary education at Graland Country Day School, an independent co-educationalday school inDenver.[4] She earned aB.A. in Spanish literature with a minor inpolitical science fromBryn Mawr College in 2001.[5][6] She also attendedDavidson College for two years, but did not earn a degree there.[7] Along the way, Hoover studied Spanish-language literature andMandarin Chinese. She also studied abroad in Bolivia, Mexico and China.[8]
After graduating from college, Hoover moved toTaipei where she was hired as a research assistant and editor at a Taiwanese law firm. She arrived on the day of theSeptember 11 attacks. Quickly realizing she wanted to be back in the U.S., she returned home in 2002.[9][10]
Hoover worked for theGeorge W. Bush administration as associate director of Intergovernmental Affairs.[11] She worked on Bush's 2004 reelection campaign and was Deputy Finance Director for Rudy Giuliani's presidential bid in 2006–07.[12] She also worked as a staffer on Capitol Hill for CongressmanMario Díaz-Balart, and as Advisor to the Deputy Secretary at theDepartment of Homeland Security.[13] Hoover is on the board of overseers atStanford University'sHoover Institution, and on the boards of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association and the Belgian American Educational Foundation.[14][15][16] She served on the advisory council of TheAmerican Foundation for Equal Rights andGOProud.[17][18]
Hoover is a Republican, withlibertarian beliefs on social issues.[19][20] Hoover is an advocate forgay rights, includinggay marriage, arguing that individual freedom and marriage are conservative values.[21] She has been profiled inThe Advocate as "exactly the brand of straight ally we need right now".[22] In 2013, Hoover was a signatory to anamicus curiae brief submitted to the Supreme Court in support of same-sex marriage inHollingsworth v. Perry.[23]
Hoover is opposed toDonald Trump.[20] Before the 2020 election, she said, "I can't bring myself to vote for Donald Trump", adding that she would "quite likely" vote forJoe Biden instead, as she found the vote a "binary choice".[19]
From 2008 to 2012, Hoover was a Fox News contributor, appearing onBill O'Reilly'sThe O'Reilly Factor.[24] In the branded segment "Culture Warrior", she jousted with O'Reilly on a range of topics from entertainment news to popular culture to Hollywood and politics. In 2012, she became a political contributor atCNN.[25] In 2014, she hosted the Toyota Solutions Studio at the Women In The World conference held atLincoln Center, where she interviewed several participants.[26] In April 2018, it was announced she would hostFiring Line.[27]
Hoover hostsFiring Line with Margaret Hoover, a relaunch ofNational Review founderWilliam F. Buckley Jr.'s public-affairs television show,Firing Line, although she shares few of Buckley's views on political philosophy or policy positions. The original show aired on PBS for 33 years, the longest-running public affairs show in television history with a single host.[28][29] Hoover's show premiered on June 2, 2018, onWNET, which serves the New York metropolitan area, and is the largestPBS market in the country.[30][31][32]The New York Times wrote, "Under Ms. Hoover's direction, the discourse is civil and substantive".[33] According to theNational Review, "the reincarnation of Firing Line comes at an interesting time, and a needful one".[34] In the run-up to the show's premierePolitico said, "It seems like a great idea, so let's test drive it and see what happens".[35] In May 2019,The Algemeiner named Hoover its Journalist of the Year for her work onFiring Line.[36]
Hoover is married to former CNN contributorJohn Avlon, a formerRudy Giuliani speechwriter, senior columnist forNewsweek, and former Editor-in-Chief ofThe Daily Beast.[33] They have a son, born in 2013, and a daughter, born in 2015.[37][38]
She is the daughter of Jean W. Hoover and Andrew Hoover of Littleton, Colo. Her father, a mining engineer, retired from Greenfield Engineering in Denver. He is also on the board of the Hoover library association. Her mother retired as a flight attendant for United Airlines.
When alumna Margaret Hoover '93 was in town last week to receive the Nancy Nye Priest Award from the Alumni Association, she graciously made time to visit campus and speak with seventh graders about her career as a political commentator.
As the Republican presidential candidates approach the primary season, considerable media attention has been devoted to Margaret Hoover '01, whose American Individualism: How a New Generation of Conservatives Can Save the Republican Party was published this summer.
She graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a B.A. in Spanish literature and a minor in political science.
List of famous alumni from Davidson College, with photos when available. Prominent graduates from Davidson College include celebrities, politicians, business people, athletes and more. This list of distinguished Davidson College alumni is loosely ordered by relevance, so the most recognizable celebrities who attended Davidson College are at the top of the list. This directory is not just composed of graduates of this school, as some of the famous people on this list didn't necessarily earn a degree from Davidson College
Overseers: Margaret Hoover, New York, NY
Avlon's wife, Margaret Hoover, serves on the board of GOProud
Influential party donors such as Cliff Asness, Lew Eisenberg, and Dan Loeb decided to add their names, as did policy leaders such as Doug Holtz-Eakin, Greg Mankiw, and Nancy Pfotenhauer, and strategists and media figures such as Alex Castellanos, Margaret Hoover (full disclosure, my bride), Nicolle Wallace, Steve Schmidt, S.E. Cupp, Ana Navarro, and The Daily Beast's own David Frum and Mark McKinnon. Demographic of one Clint Eastwood even decided to sign on.
Almost 20 years sinceFiring Line ceased production, Margaret Hoover is stepping in to become the next host of the conservative talk show on PBS.
The reincarnation of Firing Line comes at an interesting time, and a needful one.
John Avlon and Margaret Hoover welcomed a baby boy, Jack, at 7:23 p.m. Aug. 14, 2013
John Avlon and Margaret Hoover announced the birth of daughter Toula Lou Hoover Avlon.
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