Margaret Hoover

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Margaret Hoover
File:Margaret Hoover.jpg
Hoover in 2011
Born Margaret Claire Hoover
(1977-12-11) December 11, 1977 (age 46)
Colorado, U.S.
Nationality American
Alma mater Bryn Mawr College (BA)
Political party Republican
Spouse(s) John Avlon (m. 2009)
Children 2
Family Allan Hoover (grandfather)
Herbert Hoover (great-grandfather)
Website margarethoover.com

Margaret Claire Hoover (born December 11, 1977) is an American conservative political commentator, political strategist, media personality, author, and great-granddaughter of Herbert Hoover, the 31st U.S. President.[1] She is the author of the book American Individualism: How A New Generation of Conservatives Can Save the Republican Party, published by Crown Forum in 2011. Hoover hosts PBS's reboot of the conservative interview show Firing Line.[2]

Early life

Hoover was born in Colorado, the daughter of Jean (Williams), a flight attendant, and Andrew Hoover, a mining engineer.[3][4] She received primary education at Graland Country Day School, an independent co-educational day school in Denver.[5] She earned a B.A. in Spanish literature with a minor in political science from Bryn Mawr College in 2001.[6][7] She also attended Davidson College for two years, but did not earn a degree there.[8]

Career

Hoover worked for the George W. Bush administration as Associate Director of Intergovernmental Affairs.[9] She worked on Bush's 2004 reelection campaign and was Deputy Finance Director for Rudy Giuliani's presidential bid in 2006–07.[10] She also worked as a staffer on Capitol Hill for Congressman Mario Díaz-Balart and as Advisor to the Deputy Secretary at the Department of Homeland Security.[11]

Hoover is on the Board of Overseers at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, and on the boards of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association and the Belgian American Educational Foundation.[12][13][14] She serves on the Advisory Council of The American Foundation for Equal Rights and GOProud.[15][16]

Hoover is committed to publicizing her great-grandfather Herbert Hoover's legacy.[17]

In May 2019, the Algemeiner named Hoover its Journalist of the Year for her work on Firing Line.[18]

Media

From 2008 to 2012, Hoover was a Fox News contributor, appearing on Bill O'Reilly's The O'Reilly Factor.[19] 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. Since 2012, she has been a political contributor at CNN.[20] In April 2018, it was announced she would host Firing Line.[21]

In 2014, she hosted the Toyota Solutions Studio at the Women In The World conference held at Lincoln Center, where she interviewed several participants.[22]

Firing Line with Margaret Hoover (PBS TV Series)

Hoover hosts Firing Line with Margaret Hoover, a relaunch of National Review founder William F. Buckley Jr.'s public affairs television show Firing Line, which aired on PBS for 33 years, the longest-running public affairs show in television history with a single host.[23][24] Hoover's show premiered on June 2, 2018, on WNET, which serves the New York metropolitan area, and is the largest PBS market in the country.[25][26][27]

Reception

The New York Times wrote, "Under Ms. Hoover's direction, the discourse is civil and substantive".[28] According to the National Review, "the reincarnation of Firing Line comes at an interesting time, and a needful one".[29] In the run-up to the show's premiere Politico said, "It seems like a great idea, so let's test drive it and see what happens".[30]

Advocacy for gay rights

Hoover is an advocate for gay rights, including gay marriage, arguing that individual freedom and marriage are conservative values.[31] She has been profiled in The Advocate as "exactly the brand of straight ally we need right now".[32]

In 2013, Hoover was a signatory to an amicus curiae brief submitted to the Supreme Court in support of same-sex marriage in Hollingsworth v. Perry.[33]

Personal life

Hoover is married to fellow CNN contributor John Avlon, a former Rudy Giuliani speechwriter, senior columnist for Newsweek, and former Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Beast.[34] They have a son, Jack, born in 2013, and a daughter, Toula Lou, born in 2015.[35][36]

Bibliography

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See also

References

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