The Heritage Foundation mourns the loss of his founder Ed Feulner

WASHINGTON-The Heritage Foundation today has the following explanation of the President of the Heritage, Dr. Kevin Roberts, and the chairman of the board of trustees, Barb van Andel-Gaby, published, who praises the legacy and mourns the loss of heritage founder Edwin J. Feulner:

“With great grief we announced the death of Edwin J. Feulner, founder, trustee and the longest -serving president of the Heritage Foundation.

“Ed Feulner was more than a leader – he was a visionary, a builder and a patriot of the highest order. His unshakable love for the country and his determination to protect the principles that made America the freest, most successful nation in human history have shaped every fiber optic of the conservative movement.

Ed founded the Heritage Foundation in 1973 and planted a flag for truth in a city that was too often seduced by power. What started as a small outpost for conservative ideas – under EDS tireless leadership – the intellectual arsenal for the Reagan Revolution and the modern conservative movement. fight for the American people.

“After ED had led the inheritance as President for 37 years, ED continued to serve in our board of trustees and offered encouragement and wise advice. Ed was an important mentor for us, and for everyone who had the honor of knowing him. In addition to his work in the legacy, he continued his active participation in many other conservative organizations.

“Regardless of whether he brought together the different corners of the conservative movement at the meeting of the Philadelphia Society or launched today's Heritage Strategy Forum. He also believed, no subtraction, no uniformity. His legacy is not only the institution he built, but also the movement that he grew – a movement that is rooted in faith, family, freedom and foundation.

“His” feudalisms “still swing in the halls of the heritage – where they always remember. People are politics.

“Ed himself seemed to be immune to discouragement. Every day was a new opportunity for him to strike a blow to the freedom, promote America's promise and make it to all realities. His life was a life full of joyful despite the tyranny and bureaucratic expiration – a life that was signed by courage, conviction and the word every day: forward!

“To his beloved wife Linda, her children and grandchildren-we extend our deepest prayers and condolences. And to say Ed-we thank you. Thank you for showing us what a loyal, fearless man can do when he refuses to give the reason in the fight for self-administration.

“The Heritage Foundation will honor EDS life as we know best how: by driving his mission with courage, integrity and determination. We will never forget his leadership, example or fighter control:”Further. Always.”

The long -standing Heritage colleague and head of the conservative movement, Bridgett Wagner, Executive Director of the Edwin J. Feulner Institute at the Heritage Foundation, said:

“Today we lost a giant. I knew my entire adult life. His wisdom, his leadership, eternal optimism and confidence in our cause inspired countless individuals, permanent institutions and deeply shaped the conservative movement. We mourning Linda and her family today and we look forward to celebrating his remarkable life in the coming months. Quiet in peace.

About Ed Feulner

Edwin John Feulner Jr. was born on August 12, 1941 in Chicago as the son of Helen Joan Feulner and Edwin J. Feulner Sr., who had a real estate company. After Feulner grew up in Suburban Chicago, he visited the Regis University in Denver. There he read the best -selling manifesto of Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, “the conscience of a conservative” and Russell Kirks “The Conservative Mind”, which influenced his thinking and direction of his life.

He completed the Regis University with double majors in English and business and in 1964 received an MBA of the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He later visited Georgetown University and the London School of Economics before making a doctorate at the University of Edinburgh in 1981.

Feulner began his career in Washington as public affairs for the Center for Strategic Studies (now the Center for Strategic and International Studies) and at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, where he wrote about topics such as economic trade bartgos with the Soviet Union. Later he became a confidential assistant to the Rep. (And later Minister of Defense) Melvin R. Laird (R-Wi). After that, Feulner was chief of all of the staff of Rep. Philip M. Crane (R-il), whom he met in 1962 after founding a group of intercollegiate studies institutes (ISI) on campus. Feulner had a lifelong relationship with ISI and served in the board of trustees.

Before the inheritance was founded in 1973, Feulner worked as the executive director of the Republican Study Committee. He became President Heritage in 1977, a position that he held until 2013. Feulner again served as president from 2017-2018. President Ronald Reagan awarded Feulner in 1989 with the president's medal.

Feulner was the author of nine books: “The American Spirit” (2012), “Getting America Right” (2006), “Leadership for America” (2000), “Intellectual Pilgrims” (1999), “The March of Freedom” (1998), “Conservative Stalk the House” (1983), “Looking Back” (1981), “Congress and the New International Economic Order” (1976), and “Trading with the Communists” (1968).

He was the editor of “US-Japan Mutual Security: the next twenty years” (1981), “China-the Turning Point” (1976) and a contributor from 10 other books and numerous magazines, reviews and magazines. Feulner was also the editor of Heritage's Guideline check Magazine from 1977 to 2001, when Heritage transferred the publication to the Hoover Institution. He was a co-founder and chairman of the Townhall.com website, which was founded to coordinate the online activities of dozens of conservative organizations and columnists.

The leadership of the Heritage Foundation by Feulner transformed the thought factory from a small political business into the American power house with conservative ideas and what The New York Times calls “the parthenon of the conservative metropolis”.