ORGANIZATION

Key "Tea Party" group founded July 2004 by the merger of Citizens for a Sound Economy with Empower America. "FreedomWorks, led by former U.S. House Majority Leader Dick Armey, has an unrivalled ability to reach opinion leaders and elected officials with innovative policy ideas and effective strategies for change. FreedomWorks drives policy change by training and mobilizing grassroots Americans to engage their fellow citizens and encourage their political representatives to act in defense of individual freedom and economic opportunity." Armey quit the group in 2012.

Official Website:
http://www.freedomworks.org/

Location:
Washington, DC

Founding Date:
2004

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Dick Armey	Politician	7-Jul-1940		US House Majority Leader, 1995-2003
Haley Barbour	Politician	22-Oct-1947		Governor of Mississippi, 2004-12
Louis Beecherl	Business	10-Feb-1926	5-Jul-2011	CEO, Texas Oil & Gas 1957-77
William Bennett	Government	31-Jul-1943		Former Drug Czar and gambling man
Norman Brinker	Business	3-Jun-1931	9-Jun-2009	CEO of Brinker International, 1983-95
James H. Burnley IV	Government	30-Jul-1948		US Secretary of Transportation, 1987-89
Donald J. Carty	Business	23-Jun-1946		CEO of American Airlines, 1998-2003
Harlan Crow	Business	1950		Chairman and CEO, Crow Holdings
Richard J. Egan	Business	28-Feb-1936	28-Aug-2009	Co-Founder, EMC Corporation
Foster Friess	Business	2-Apr-1940		Friess Associates
C. Boyden Gray	Government	6-Feb-1943		Conservative activist, lobbyist
Lanny Griffith	Lobbyist	13-Aug-1951		Lobbyist, Barbour Griffith & Rogers
John P. Harbin	Business	17-Jul-1917	27-Jul-2014	CEO of Halliburton, 1972-83
Ray L. Hunt	Business	6-Apr-1943		Chairman of Hunt Oil
Herb Kelleher	Business	12-Mar-1931		Founder of Southwest Airlines
Jack Kemp	Politician	13-Jul-1935	2-May-2009	American politican, football player
Matt Kibbe	Activist	c. 1963		President and CEO of FreedomWorks
Lew Lehrman	Business	15-Aug-1938		Rite Aid drugstore founder
Tom Loeffler	Politician	1-Aug-1946		Congressman from Texas, 1979-87
John Palmer	Diplomat	1934		US Ambassador to Portugal, 2001-04
Bob Perry	Business	30-Oct-1932	13-Apr-2013	Perry Homes, Republican financier
T. Boone Pickens	Business	22-May-1928		Texas oilman, founded Mesa Petroleum
Richard W. Rahn	Economist	c. 1941		The End of Money
Thomas L. Rhodes	Journalist	c. 1941		President, National Review
Ed Rogers	Government	22-Nov-1958		Republican strategist
Donald Rumsfeld	Government	9-Jul-1932		US Secretary of Defense, 1975-77 and 2001-06
Harold C. Simmons	Business	13-May-1931	28-Dec-2013	Drugstore billionaire
Robert E. Sweeney	Politician	4-Nov-1924	30-Jun-2007	Congressman from Ohio, 1965-67
John M. Templeton, Jr.	Relative	19-Feb-1940	16-May-2015	Conservative philanthropist
Charles Wyly	Business	13-Oct-1933	7-Aug-2011	Billionaire, Michael's Stores

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