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Great-granddaughter of Hoover engaged to Giuliani speechwriter
by Gregory R. Norfleet · News · December 23, 2008
A Republican political strategist, television personality and great-granddaughter of Herbert Hoover is engaged to be married.
Margaret Hoover, who most recently visited West Branch to film and narrate an orientation video for her ancestor’s Library-Museum, is engaged to John Phillips Avlon, an author and speechwriter for former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
“We were engaged Nov. 16 on the lower tip of Manhattan at sunset,” Hoover wrote in an e-mail to the West Branch Times.
Hoover added that she and Avlon have yet to set a date, but they will “probably” marry between August and November 2009.
Hoover is also a radio personality and comments on everything from politics to pop culture. She has been seen on Fox News, the O’Reilly Factor, The View, Larry King Live and The Early Show, according to biographical information on her Web site, margarethoover.com.
She once worked in the White House in the current Bush Administration for Karl Rove as the associate director in the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.
She has served as deputy finance director in Giuliani’s Presidential Exploratory Committee, Bush’s re-election campaign, senior advisor to the deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and deputy press secretary for Florida Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart.
Reared in Colorado, she also serves as a member of the Board of Overseers for the Hoover Institution at Stanford University (President Hoover’s alma mater) and serves on the board of Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association.
Fluent in Spanish, she in 2001 earned a bachelor of arts degree in Spanish Language Literature with a minor in political science from Bryn Mawr College.
Avlon is the author of “Independent Nation: How Centrists Can Change American Politics” and was the chief speechwriter and deputy policy director for Giuliani’s 2008 presidential campaign.
He has served as a columnist and associate editor of the New York Sun.
After the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist strikes, Avlon was part of a team of writers responsible for all the eulogies for every firefighter, police officer and emergency worker killed in the destruction of the World Trade Center.
His essay on the attacks, “The Resilient City,” won acclaim.
He has appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, PBS and C-Span and has spoken at Yale, the Citadel, the Kennedy School of Government, the State Department’s visiting journalist program and many civic organizations.
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