Margaret Claire Hoover was born on December 11,1977 and is an American conservative political commentator, political strategist, media personality, author, and great-granddaughter of Herbert Hoover, the 31st US president.
15 Facts About Margaret Hoover
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Margaret Hoover is author of the book American Individualism: How A New Generation of Conservatives Can Save the Republican Party, published by Crown Forum in 2011.
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Margaret Hoover was born in Colorado, the daughter of Jean, a flight attendant, and Andrew Margaret Hoover, a mining engineer.
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Margaret Hoover received primary education at Graland Country Day School, an independent co-educational day school in Denver.
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Margaret Hoover attended Davidson College for two years, but did not earn a degree there.
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Along the way, Margaret Hoover studied Spanish-language literature and Mandarin Chinese.
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Margaret Hoover worked as a staffer on Capitol Hill for Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart, and as Advisor to the Deputy Secretary at the Department of Homeland Security.
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Margaret Hoover served on the advisory council of The American Foundation for Equal Rights and GOProud.
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Margaret Hoover is a conservative, with libertarian beliefs on issues of personal morality.
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Margaret Hoover is an advocate for gay rights, including gay marriage, arguing that individual freedom and marriage are conservative values.
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Margaret Hoover has been profiled in The Advocate as "exactly the brand of straight ally we need right now".
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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.
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From 2008 to 2012, Margaret Hoover was a Fox News contributor, appearing on Bill O'Reilly's The O'Reilly Factor.
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Margaret Hoover's show premiered on June 2,2018, on WNET, which serves the New York metropolitan area, and is the largest PBS market in the country.
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Margaret 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.