Richard Scaife

Richard Mellon Scaife Dies After Investing $620 Million in Conservative Movement Infrastructure

2014-07-04 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

Richard Mellon Scaife, the billionaire heir to the Mellon banking and aluminum fortune who became the most important financial architect of the modern conservative movement, died on July 4, 2014, one day after his 82nd birthday, after a battle with cancer. Scaife’s death marked the end of a …

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Edwin Feulner Retires as Heritage Foundation President After 36 Years Building Conservative Movement Infrastructure

2013-04-03 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

Edwin J. Feulner Jr. retired as president of the Heritage Foundation on April 3, 2013, after an extraordinary 36-year tenure that transformed Heritage from a small Capitol Hill operation with 9 staff members and a $1 million budget into the most influential conservative think tank in Washington, …

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Heritage Foundation Expands to 100+ Staff with $10 Million Budget During Reagan Administration Peak Influence

1983-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

The Heritage Foundation reached over 100 staff members and a $10 million annual budget by 1983, representing explosive growth during the Reagan administration’s implementation of Heritage policy recommendations. In just six years since Ed Feulner became president in 1977, Heritage had grown …

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Edwin Feulner Becomes Heritage Foundation President, Beginning 36-Year Tenure Building Conservative Policy Infrastructure

1977-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

Edwin J. Feulner Jr., co-founder of the Heritage Foundation in 1973, assumed the presidency of the conservative think tank in 1977, beginning what would become a transformative 36-year tenure that built Heritage from a modest Capitol Hill operation with 9 staff members into the preeminent …

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Richard Scaife Acquires Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Building Conservative Media Infrastructure

1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

Richard Mellon Scaife, heir to the Mellon banking and aluminum fortune, purchased the Tribune-Review newspaper in Greensburg, Pennsylvania for approximately $5 million in 1970, marking his entry into media ownership as part of a broader strategy to build conservative infrastructure across multiple …

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