Is Margaret Claire Hoover married?
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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". They have a son, Jack, born in 2013, and a daughter, Toula Lou, born in 2015.
Margaret Hoover
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Margaret Claire Hoover (born December 11, 1977) is an American political commentator, political strategist, media personality, feminist, gay rights activist, author, and great-granddaughter of Herbert Hoover, the 31st U.S. President. She is the best-selling author of the book "American Individualism: How A New Generation of Conservatives Can Save the Republican Party", published by Crown Forum in July 2011. Hoover is currently host of PBS's reboot of the conservative interview show "Firing Line".
Hoover was born in Colorado, the daughter of Jean (Williams), a flight attendant, and Andrew Hoover, a mining engineer.
Margaret Hoover
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Herbert Charles Hoover was married to Margaret Ava Watson. They had 3 children: Margaret Ann Hoover (1926–2011), Herbert Clark "Pete" Hoover III (1927–2010) and Joan Leslie Hoover (1930–2002).
Herbert Hoover Jr.
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Hoover was born in London on July 17, 1907. His elder brother was Herbert Charles Hoover (1903–1969). He graduated from Palo Alto High School, Stanford University, and Harvard Business School. He was married to Margaret Coberly Hoover with two sons, Andrew and Allan Jr., and a daughter, Lou Henry. His grand-daughter (via Andrew) is Margaret Hoover.
Allan Hoover
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She is an advocate for gay rights, including gay marriage, arguing that individual freedom and marriage are conservative values. She testified before the Maryland State Senate on behalf of gay marriage in January 2011, took an active role in the 2012 battle to win gay marriage in New York, encouraging them not to repeal freedom to marry. She has been profiled in "The Advocate" as "exactly the brand of straight ally we need right now". Chad Griffin asked her to serve on the Advisory Board of the American Foundation for Equal Rights, the non-profit organization funding the Prop 8 Trial ("Hollingsworth v. Perry"), and is a co-chair and founder of the group Young Conservatives for the Freedom to Marry. In 2014, Hoover introduced Evan Wolfson at the 10th anniversary celebration of Freedom To Marry. She was introduced by Cynthia Nixon who said Hoover "appeals to the pragmatism of the millennial generation, she believes constitutionally guaranteed rights ought to transcend left versus right, and Democrat versus Republican, and she does so with savvy, skill and style." She serves as treasurer of the American Unity PAC, which supports pro-LGBT Republican Congressional candidates, and president of the American Unity Fund, which supports the work of pro-freedom Republicans nationally.
Margaret Hoover
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Avlon married Margaret Hoover in 2009, who kept her name. After growing up in Colorado, where her father was a mining executive, she has been a political and media consultant in New York and a commentator on the Fox News Channel. She wrote "American Individualism: How a New Generation of Conservatives Can Save the Republican Party" (2011). Currently she is the host of Firing Line reboot on PBS. She is a great-granddaughter of President Herbert Hoover. They have a son Jack, born in 2013, and a daughter Toula Lou, born in 2015. In 2018 The New York Times profiled their marriage describing it as, "a bit like hanging out with the members of a very good-looking high school debate team warming up for a match...Their telegenic union may be a lesson in overcoming the orthodoxies that divide us."
John Avlon
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The first fourteen episodes of the program featured guests representing a variety of sociopolitical ideologies, including Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, Ohio Governor John Kasich, journalist Gretchen Carlson, Senator Jeff Merkley, "the rising star of the political Left," Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and "accidental icon of the conservative movement," Jordan Peterson. Margaret Hoover's interview with Ocasio-Cortez earned national and international attention for her comments ranging from the state of capitalism and the unemployment rate in the United States to the State of Israel. Most recently she interviewed the former governor of New Jersey Chris Christie in which he referred to the crimes that Jared Kushner’s Father Committed as ‘Loathsome‘.
Margaret Hoover
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Frances "Fannie" Hoover married Byron Buffington in 1874. Her father James was a butcher in Eau Claire from 1866 to 1898. Elizabeth Borland was her mother. Around 1936 Fannie donated the Hoover-Borland chapel to the cemetery in honor of her parents.
James Stephen Hoover and Elizabeth Borland Memorial Chapel
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Colleen Hoover was born December 11, 1979 in Sulphur Springs, TX, to Vannoy Fite and Eddie Fennell. She grew up in Saltillo, TX, and graduated from Saltillo High School in 1998. In 2000, she married Heath Hoover, with whom she now has three sons. Hoover graduated from Texas A&M-Commerce with a degree in Social Work. She worked various social work and teaching jobs until she began her writing career.
Colleen Hoover
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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".
Margaret Hoover