Conservatives in the United States

Conservative thinkers and leaders

These are some important conservatives in America:

Politicians
President John Adams (1735–1826)
Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton (1757–1802)
Senator John C. Calhoun (1782–1850)
President Grover Cleveland (1837–1908)
President Teddy Roosevelt (1858–1919)
Senator Robert A. Taft (1889–1953)
Senator Barry Goldwater (1909–1998)
President Ronald Reagan (1911–2004)
Vice-President Dick Cheney (b.1941)
Representative Newt Gingrich (b.1943)
President George W. Bush (b.1946)


Judges
Chief Justice John Jay (1745–1829)
Chief Justice William Rehnquist (1924–2005)
Associate Justice Antonin Scalia (b.1936)
Judge Robert Bork (b.1927)


Economists
Milton Friedman (1912–2006)
Russell Kirk (1918–1994)
Irving Kristol (b.1920)
Alan Greenspan (b.1926)


Writers and intellectuals
Ayn Rand (1905–1982)
William F. Buckley, Jr. (1925–2008)
Robert Nozick (1938–2002)
Pat Buchanan (b.1938)


Media personalities
Rush Limbaugh (b.1951)


Financial supporters
Charles G. Koch (b. 1935)
David H. Koch (b. 1940)


Think tanks
Cato Institute
Heritage Foundation