Overview

• Dr. Edwin J. Feulner Jr. passed away on July 18 in Washington, D.C., at the age of 83.
• He co-founded the Heritage Foundation in 1973 and led it as president from 1977 to 2013.
• In the early 1970s he established the House Republican Study Committee, which grew into Congress’s largest conservative caucus.
• Under his leadership, Heritage produced the 1980 “Mandate for Leadership” policy agenda that President Reagan distributed to his Cabinet.
• Conservative figures and organizations are pledging to uphold Feulner’s model of concise policy advocacy, mentorship initiatives and coalition-building in his memory.