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Edwin J. Feulner's leadership as president of The Heritage
Foundation transformed the think tank from a small policy shop
into America's powerhouse of conservative ideas and what the
New York Times calls "the Parthenon of the conservative
metropolis."

After serving as president from 1977 to 2013, Feulner served
as president again for a brief period in 2017. Heritage's
influence grew immensely that year. After President Donald J.
Trump's inauguration, there were a number of conservative policy
victories, most notably tax reform, and The Heritage Foundation
played a role in all of them. In just its first year, the Trump
administration embraced nearly two-thirds of the policy
recommendations from Heritage's five "Mandate for Leadership"
publications. "Ed Feulner has made Heritage not just a permanent
institution on Capitol Hill, but the flagship organization of
the entire conservative movement," Board Chairman Thomas A.
Saunders said in December 2012.

As Feulner wrote in the introduction to one of his books, The
March of Freedom: "This has been a conscious goal of The Heritage
Foundation--to be a permanent Washington presence. We have set
out to make conservative ideas not just respectable but
mainstream. To set the terms of national policy debate. To
offer not a lament for a lost America, but positive, practical,
free market alternatives to the failed liberal policies of the
old order."

Feulner's work in the conservative movement throughout his life
earned him praise from a range of individuals from Heritage
donors to U.S. Presidents.

"By building an organization dedicated to ideas and their
consequences, he has helped to shape the policy of our Government.
His has been a voice of reason and values in service to his
country and the cause of freedom around the world," read the
citation of the Presidential Citizens Medal, given to Feulner
on Jan. 18, 1989, by President Ronald Reagan.

Feulner's leadership was internationally recognized. The Daily
Telegraph (UK) named him one of the 100 most influential
conservatives in America in 2007 and 2010. In a 2009 Forbes
magazine article, Karl Rove ranked Feulner the 6th most powerful
conservative in Washington. That same year, he was featured by
the Fox News Channel on Fox News Sunday as host Chris Wallace's
"Power Player of the Week." In July 2010, he was included in
Townhall magazine's list of "the 100 Americans the Left hates
most."

In April 2009, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI)
conferred upon Feulner the Charles Hoeflich Lifetime Achievement
Award. In June 2012, he received the Bradley Prize for
extraordinary talent and dedication at Washington's Kennedy
Center.

Feulner first joined The Heritage Foundation as a founding
Trustee in 1973. He later became President in 1977, Heritage's
fourth in four years. After accepting the job, Feulner was
determined to chart a new course for the struggling think tank.

He did not want to lead a group of academics that would write
studies, place them on a shelf and hope someone important would
read them. Instead, Feulner decided that Heritage would operate
like a business that expected progress from its analysts and
results from their policy studies. Heritage would achieve these
results by creating timely, concise studies and aggressively
marketing them to Congress, policymakers and the media.

This "briefcase test" concept became a model for other think
tanks to follow. In fact, Heritage's success has led many
liberals to try to create a "liberal Heritage Foundation" to
counter the think tank's influence. "[Conservatives] worked on
it for 30 years and they've got it," former President Bill
Clinton complained in a 2003 appearance on NBC's Today show.
"They've got everything from The Heritage Foundation, the
sympathetic newspapers, to sympathetic cable programs ..."

This didn't happen by accident. Feulner worked tirelessly. He
travelled more than 150,000 miles a year, crisscrossing the
United States and the globe to meet with leaders and help spread
the ideals of individual liberty, economic freedom, rule of
law, and family values.

"Although his ways are entirely unassuming, one pauses ... to
wonder how Ed Feulner manages as he does," wrote National Review
founder William F. Buckley Jr. in an introduction to The Power
of Ideas, a 1997 book on Heritage's history. "It helps that he
disposes of the requisite biological and temperamental
attributes--the capacity to go many hours without sleep, to
travel endlessly attending to caseloads of work, to endure a
day of meetings that begin at breakfast and end at midnight."

Feulner's schedule was often full because of the many hats he
wore over the years: He was the former President and was the
long time Treasurer of the Mont Pelerin Society; he served as
a Trustee and former Chairman of the Board of ISI; a Board
Member of the National Chamber Foundation; a Board Member of
the Institut d' Etudes Politiques; a life member of the Board
of Trustees of Regis University in Denver; and twice a past
President of the Philadelphia Society, of which he was elected
as a Distinguished Member.

Feulner was a member of the Advisory Board of the Public
Diplomacy Collaborative at Harvard University's Kennedy School
of Government. He was past Director of the Sequoia Bank, the
Council for National Policy, the Acton Institute, the Aequus
Institute, the International Republican Institute, the American
Council on Germany, the Lehrman Institute, and George Mason
University.

He was a longtime officer and director of two grant-making
foundations: the Sarah Scaife Foundation, and the Thomas A.
Roe Foundation.

Feulner formerly served as a member of the Gingrich-Mitchell
Congressional U.N. Reform Task Force (2005) and on the
Congressional Commission on International Financial Institutions
("Meltzer Commission") from 1999-2000. He was the Vice Chairman
of the National Commission on Economic Growth and Tax Reform
("Kemp Commission") from 1995-1996. As Chairman of the U.S.
Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy (1982-91), he was
confirmed by the U.S. Senate on three occasions.

He served as the Public Member (Ambassador) of the U.S. Delegation
to the United Nations Second Special Session on Disarmament in
New York, as a consultant for domestic policy to President
Reagan, and as an adviser to several government departments
and agencies.

Feulner spoke frequently both in the United States and abroad,
and was awarded honorary degrees from 10 colleges and universities.
He was declared a Benefactor of the University of Edinburgh,
and has received honors from the governments of Taiwan, South
Korea, and the Czech Republic.

But his heart belonged to Heritage--and to the thousands of
colleagues and supporters he worked with over the decades. "I
can't stress it enough," Feulner said in 2002 on his 25th
anniversary as president. "If you don't have the right people,
you won't have the success Heritage has had over the years."

After serving as president from 1977 to 2013, Feulner served
as president again on an interim during 2017. Heritage's
influence grew immensely that year. After President Donald J.
Trump's inauguration there were a number of conservative policy
victories, and The Heritage Foundation played a role in all of
them.

Edwin John Feulner Jr. was born Aug. 12, 1941, in Chicago to
Helen Joan Feulner and Edwin J. Feulner Sr., who owned a real
estate firm. After growing up in suburban Chicago, Feulner
attended Regis University in Denver. There he read Arizona Sen.
Barry Goldwater's best-selling manifesto, The Conscience of a
Conservative and Russell Kirk's The Conservative Mind, which
influenced his thinking and the direction of his life.

He graduated from Regis University with double majors in English
and business, and received an MBA from the University of
Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business in 1964. He later
attended Georgetown University and the London School of Economics,
and then earned a doctorate degree at the University of Edinburgh
in 1981.

Feulner began his Washington career as Public Affairs Fellow
for the Center for Strategic Studies (now the Center for
Strategic and International Studies) and at the Hoover Institution
at Stanford University, where he wrote on subjects such as
economic trade embargoes with the Soviet Union. He later became
a confidential assistant to Rep. and later Defense Secretary
Melvin R. Laird (R-WI). Afterward, Feulner became Chief of
Staff to Rep. Philip M. Crane (R-IL). Before joining Heritage
as its President, Feulner was Executive Director of the Republican
Study Committee.

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), Conservatives 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 U.S--Japan Mutual Security: The Next Twenty
Years, China--The Turning Point, and a contributor to 10 other
books and numerous journals, reviews and magazines. Feulner
also was publisher of Heritage's Policy Review magazine from
1977 until 2001, when Heritage transferred the publication to
the Hoover Institution. He was the co-founder and Chairman of
the website Townhall.com, which was established to coordinate
online activities of dozens of conservative organizations and
columnists.

Feulner also penned a weekly column that appeared regularly in
dozens of newspapers and websites across the country.

He passed away on July 18, 2025, surrounded by his loving
family.
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