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Dr. H. Lee Cheek, Jr., is the Chair of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Division and Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Brewton-Parker College in Mt. Vernon, Georgia. He received his bachelor's degree from Western Carolina University, his M.Div. from Duke University, his M.P.A. from Western Carolina University, and his Ph.D. from The Catholic University of America. Dr. Cheek taught at Brewton-Parker College from 1997-2000, and he rejoined the Brewton-Parker faculty in 2005. In 2000, and again in 2006, Dr. Cheek was awarded Brewton-Parker College's "Professor of the Year Award" by the student body. From 2000 to 2005, Dr. Cheek served as Associate Professor of Political Science at Lee University. In May of 2002, Dr. Cheek was given Lee University’s Excellence in Scholarship award; and in May of 2004, he received Lee University's Excellence in Advising award. He has also served as a congressional aide and as a political consultant.

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Phyllis Schlafly (born August 15, 1924, in St. Louis, Missouri)¹ is an American conservative political activist known for her best-selling A Choice, Not An Echo as well as her opposition to feminism and the Equal Rights Amendment. A Choice, Not An Echo was published in 1964 from Schalfly's home in Alton, Illinois, across the Mississippi River from her native St. Louis. From this self-publication, she formed her Pere Marquette Publishers company. A Choice, Not An Echo decries the power of the "Eastern Establishment" in the Republican Party once exercised by New York Governors Thomas E. Dewey and Nelson A. Rockefeller. A similar self-published book that year, A Texan Looks at Lyndon: An Exercise in Illegitimate Power by the Texas historian J. Evetts Haley questioned the rise to power of U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. Schlafly and Haley supported U.S. Senator Barry M. Goldwater in his unsuccessful race against Johnson.

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Samuel Todd Francis, born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on April 29, 1947, received a Ph.D. in modern history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After a stint as a policy analyst specializing in foreign affairs and internal security issues at the Heritage Foundation, he was legislative assistant for National Security Affairs to Senator John East (R—NC)

Francis served as deputy editorial page editor of the Washington Times from 1987 to 1991, and was a Times columnist until 1995. He received the Distinguished Writing Award for Editorial Writing from the American Society of Newspaper Editors in 1989 and again in 1990. Mary Lou Forbes, Washington Times commentary editor, remembers him “as a scholarly, challenging, and sometimes pungent writer who distinguished his craft with a remarkable appreciation of history and literature…. His witty and sage observations of the passing scene brightened the atmosphere where he labored.”

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Robert Alphonso Taft (September 8, 1889 - July 31, 1953), of the Taft political family of Ohio, was a Republican United States Senator and emerged as a prominent conservative spokesman in the second quarter of the twentieth century. In 1938, Taft ascended to the halls of power in the U.S. Senate to become the perennial anti-New Deal spokesmen in United States. He was the son of President William Howard Taft. Robert was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1938, earning the appellation "Mr. Republican." As historian Thomas Woods, Jr. notes, "Taft represented a non-interventionist and domestically combative wing of the Republican Party that would suffer an eclipse in the years following his death:" ¹

F. Thornton Miller says of Taylor:

John Taylor of Caroline County, Virginia, was born in 1753. Orphaned as a young boy, he was adopted by his maternal uncle Edmund Pendleton. One of Virginia's most distinguished citizens, Pendleton served from the Revolution to his death in 1803 as head of the state's highest court. Taylor studied at William and Mary and then read law in his uncle's office. He served as an officer in the Continental army and the Virginia militia during the Revolution. After the war, he had a successful law practice. Following marriage to Lucy Penn, daughter of the signer John Penn of North Carolina, he retired from the law to spend the remainder of his life as a planter. His home was Hazlewood, on the Rappahannock River near Port Royal. ¹

Taylor was an advocate of scientific farming. He wrote the agricultural treatise Arator and was the first president of the Virginia Agricultural Society. Like other members of the Virginia gentry, he fulfilled his public duty, serving in the state legislature (1779-81, 1783-85, and 1796-1800) and as a representative of Virginia in the United States Senate (1793-94, 1803, and 1822-24). He was serving as a senator when he died on 21 August 1824.

1. Taylor, John, of Caroline, Tyranny Unmasked, (Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund, 1992) pp. i-iii

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Lord John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton (January 10, 1834 – June 19, 1902) was a prominent English historian. He was born an in Naples with an aristocratic Roman Catholic family pedigree and roots in Victorian England. Acton was a learned scholar and educated at the University of Munich. Also, he was an honorary professor of history at Cambridge and he was later knighted as a member of The Royal Victorian Order that was established by Queen Victoria.

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Tom Tancredo, a lifelong Coloradan and native of Denver, represents Colorado’s 6th Congressional district. The Littleton-based district stretches across Douglas County, much of Jefferson County, Evergreen in the mountains, and portions of Park County in the west. To the east, the district encompasses parts of Arapahoe County and Elbert County.

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Melvin E. "Mel" Bradford was a conservative political commentator and professor of literature at the University of Dallas. Bradford was well versed in the classics, constitutional law, and in southern literature. He emerged as an intellectual sage in the paleoconservative movement, and a contender for the 1980 National Endowment for the Humanities chair. Though, Bradford lost the chair to William Bennett—the neoconservatives' favored contender since Bradford's anti-Lincoln scholarship brought his nomination under even greater scrutiny by the politically-incorrect cabal within the Grand Old Party. Clyde Wilson writes of his colleague Bradford:

Dr. Ron Paul, MD (born August 20, 1935) has been a distinguished Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from his state's 14th Congressional District. He graduated from Gettysburg College and the Duke University School of Medicine, before proudly serving as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Air Force during the 1960s. Paul was first elected to Congress as a Texas Republican in the 22nd District in 1976, after the incumbent Congressman resigned, but he was narrowly defeated in the November election. He served again from 1979 to 1985. Dr. Paul returned to Congress in 1997 to represent the 14th Congressional district of Texas. Paul is affectionately known as Dr. No by his colleagues because of his uncanny penchant for vetoing unconstitutional legislation and his strict constructionist constitutional philosophy. In the words of former Treasury Secretary William Simon, Dr. Paul is the "one exception to the Gang of 535" on Capitol Hill.