Thomas Brooks Hofeller was a Republican political strategist primarily known for his involvement in gerrymandering electoral district maps favorable for Republicans.
10 Facts About Thomas Hofeller
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Thomas Hofeller was born April 14,1943, in San Diego, California.
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Thomas Hofeller served in the United States Navy during the Vietnam War.
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Thomas Hofeller majored in political science at Claremont McKenna College and earned a Ph.
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Thomas Hofeller played a key part in gerrymandering notoriously lopsided maps, such as those in North Carolina and Pennsylvania.
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From June 2009 to August 2018, Thomas Hofeller earned just over $2 million from the Republican National Committee.
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The federal government, in response, said that the Thomas Hofeller study "played no role in the department's December 2017 request" for a citizenship question on the Census.
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In June 2019, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, citing the Thomas Hofeller document, remanded the case to the US district court to determine whether the Trump administration's stated rationale for adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census was in fact a pretext for a discriminatory purpose.
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In November 2019, a court ruled that Thomas Hofeller's files were no longer considered confidential as they address political activities in other states, affecting redistricting and the national census, and could be used in other suspected cases of gerrymandering.
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Thomas Hofeller died in 2018 in his Raleigh, North Carolina home at the age of 75.