| 词条 | Thomas A. Roe |
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BiographyEarly lifeThomas Anderson Roe, Jr. was born in 1927 in Greenville, South Carolina.[2] He graduated from Furman University in 1948, and worked as a research assistant in their cancer center, with a grant from the Carnegie Foundation.[1][2] He received a business degree from LaSalle Extension University and a certificate in advanced studies from the Brookings Institution Program on Urban Policy.[1] BusinessIn 1961, he inherited the Citizens Lumber Company from his late father, and renamed it Builder Marts of America.[1][2] It became a Forbes 500 company.[2] It was later purchased by Guardian Industries. He started a telecommunications company for long-distance calls, later purchased by MCI Inc..[2] He also served as vice president of American Holdings, a firm with ice cream, refrigerator, and furniture manufacturing interests in the United States, along with land holding and air cargo operations in the Dominican Republic.[1] PoliticsHe served as vice chairman and finance chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party, and a member of the Republican National Finance Committee.[2] He was a delegate to the 1964 Republican National Convention, where he supported Barry Goldwater.[2] Later, he became an advisor to Ronald Reagan.[2] PhilanthropyHe served on the boards of the Heritage Foundation, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, the Free Congress Foundation, the Council for National Policy, the International Policy Forum and the now-defunct National Empowerment Television.[2][3] In 1986, he founded the South Carolina Policy Council, a free-market think tank.[2][4][5] By 1992, the State Policy Network (SPN) was born.[2] The Roe Award, awarded by the State Policy Network, is named for him.[1] He receive the Clare Boothe Luce Award from the Heritage Foundation in 1999.[1] He founded the Roe Foundation.[2][3] Its board includes his wife Shirley Roe (chairman), Edwin Feulner (vice chairman; chairman of the Heritage Foundation), Carl Helstrom (chairman of the SPN), Tracie Sharp (president of the SPN, and Thomas Willcox, his son-in-law.[2] Should the foundation stray from free-market principles, both the Mont Pelerin Society and the Philadelphia Society will sue and act as defendants.[2] The Thomas A Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at the Heritage Foundation is named for him.[1][6][7] Scholars include Curtis S. Dubay, J. D. Foster, Alison Acosta Fraser, James L. Gattuso, Emily Goff, David C. John, Diane Katz, Patrick Louis Knudsen, Nicolas Loris and Jack Spencer.[6] He also donated to the South Carolina Medical Association, the Greenville Symphony Orchestra, and the Peace Center.[2] His donations to his alma mater, Furman University, led to the construction of The Thomas Anderson Roe Building on its campus, named in his honor.[2][8] He received an honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from Furman University in 1980 and the Order of the Palmetto of the State of South Carolina in 1995.[1] Personal lifeHe was married to Shirley Roe.[2] They attended the Christ Episcopal Church in Greenville, South Carolina.[2] He died in 2000.[1] References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 State Policy Network biography {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130321205946/http://www.spn.org/about/page/staff |date=2013-03-21 }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Roe, Thomas A.}}2. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 {{cite web |authorlink=John J. Miller (journalist) |first=John J. |last=Miller |url=http://capitalresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/May-2007-Foundation-Watch.pdf |title=Safeguarding a Conservative Donor's Intent: The Roe Foundation at 39 |publisher=Capital Research Center |work=Foundation Watch |date=May 2007 |accessdate=February 22, 2015}} 3. ^1 Russ Bellant, The Coors Connection: How Coors Family Philanthropy Undermines Democratic Pluralism, South End Press, 1991, p. 27 [https://books.google.com/books?id=fyzsTGPTkOIC&pg=PA27&dq=%22thomas+A.+Roe%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=0SL3UIvhII6X0QXe3IHoAQ&ved=0CEEQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=%22thomas%20A.%20Roe%22&f=false] 4. ^South Carolina Policy Council, About Us 5. ^South Carolina Policy Council Board of Directors 6. ^1 The Thomas R. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at the Heritage Foundation 7. ^Paul A. Djupe, Laura R. Olson, Encyclopedia of American Religion and Politics, Infobase Publishing, 2003, p. 199 [https://books.google.com/books?id=frt7RDOT1PUC&pg=PA199&dq=%22thomas+A.+Roe%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=0SL3UIvhII6X0QXe3IHoAQ&ved=0CEcQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=%22thomas%20A.%20Roe%22&f=false] 8. ^The Thomas Anderson Roe Building at Furman University {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130727213514/http://www2.furman.edu/academics/Art/building/Pages/default.aspx |date=2013-07-27 }} 9 : 1927 births|2000 deaths|People from Greenville, South Carolina|Furman University alumni|American philanthropists|South Carolina Republicans|American conservative people|20th-century American businesspeople|20th-century philanthropists |
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