Harlan Crow is a major donor to the Republican Party and conservative causes.
23 Facts About Harlan Crow
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In 2023, it became public that Harlan Crow had made undisclosed gifts to United States Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for over 20 years.
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Harlan Crow was born in Dallas, the third son of Margaret Doggett Crow and real estate developer Trammell Crow.
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Harlan Crow attended high school at the Randolph-Macon Academy in Front Royal, Virginia.
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Harlan Crow later attended Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, before he transferred to the University of Texas where he received a BBA.
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Harlan Crow worked as a leasing agent for Trammell Crow Houston Industrial from 1974 to 1978 and managed the Dallas Office Building development operations of Trammell Crow Company from 1978 to 1986.
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Harlan Crow then served as President of the Wyndham Hotel Company from 1986 to 1988.
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Harlan Crow assumed responsibility for Crow Holdings in 1988, doing so during a downturn in the company's finances.
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Harlan Crow currently serves as chairman and was formerly its chief executive officer.
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Harlan Crow is a member of the founding committee of the 5014 organization Club for Growth, and has served on the board of the American Enterprise Institute since 1996.
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Harlan Crow has donated almost $5 million to Republican campaigns and conservative groups.
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Harlan Crow is a member of the all-male Bohemian Club, and as early as 1997 he had hosted Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as a guest at the group's annual Bohemian Grove summer gathering, having met Thomas in the mid-1990s.
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Harlan Crow was a friend and former business partner of the publisher Wick Allison.
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In 2009, Harlan Crow mounted an unsuccessful multimillion-dollar campaign to block the establishment of a publicly owned convention hotel in Dallas.
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The New Republic reported in 2023 that Harlan Crow has been a major donor to the political organization No Labels.
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In 2023, ProPublica reported that Harlan Crow has given lavish gifts to Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, over a period of 20 years.
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Harlan Crow gave Thomas a portrait of the justice and his wife, according to the painter, Sharif Tarabay.
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Tax filings show that Harlan Crow's foundation gave $105,000 to the Yale Law School, Thomas's alma mater, for the "Justice Thomas Portrait Fund".
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Harlan Crow said he bought the property with the intent of later turning the home into a public museum dedicated to Thomas.
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Allegations have risen that Harlan Crow has been "subsidizing the lifestyle of Thomas and his wife" as Thomas continued to support conservative causes on the Supreme Court.
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Harlan Crow acquired these former public monuments after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc.
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Kathy Harlan Crow earned a bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1989 and an MBA from the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University.
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Harlan Crow is a member of the SMU board of trustees and a member of the executive boards of the Cox School of Business and the Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development.