Troy Kenneth "Ken" Cribb Jr. is a former presidential advisor to

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Early life and education

Cribb was born August 7, 1948, in

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. His parents were T. Kenneth Cribb Sr. and Dicksie Brown Cribb. His father was an agribusinessman, merchandising and marketing expert, civic and religious leader, a trustee of

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, and held an honorary doctorate from the

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. Cribb attended

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, where he graduated in 1970. From 1971 to 1977, Cribb served as national director of the

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. After that, he attended the

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, where he graduated in 1980.

Career

He was deputy to the chief counsel of the Reagan campaign the same year. After working as a

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lawyer, he served as a counselor to the

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and then as Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs in the

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. He was president of the

from 1989 to 2011, and served on its board until May 2012. During his tenure,

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's 50th Anniversary, 2003. He also served as vice chairman of the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board from 1989 to 1992. He was also president of the

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, a conservative umbrella organization; member of the board of advisors for the

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; is counselor to the

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for Law and Public Policy, a conservative legal organization. Cribb also serves on the board of advisors of the

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, an educational organization that continues the intellectual legacy of noted conservative icon

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, and on the

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, a start-up

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. He also served as president of the

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. Cribb has been published in ''

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'', ''The Intercollegiate Review'', ''Modern Age'', and ''

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''.

Edwin Feulner Edwin John Feulner Jr. (born August 12, 1941) is a former think tank executive who founded the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation and served as its president from 1977 to 2013 and again from 2017 to 2018. Feulner's positions have in ...

, co-founder and former president of

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, stated that "the conservative movement had no better friend in the highest councils of state during the Reagan era than Ken Cribb".

Sources

*T. Kenneth Cribb Jr.: ''All American Colleges. Top Schools for Conservatives, Old-fashioned Liberals, And People of Faith,'' ISI Books 2006.

References

External links

* Estuardo Zapeta
Interview with T. Kenneth Cribb Jr.
New Media, UFM, Guatemala, November 18, 2005. * T. Kenneth Cribb Jr.

Speech at the

Meeting in Williamsburg, Virginia November 23, 1996. * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cribb, T. Kenneth Jr. 1948 births Living people American activists Assistants to the President of the United States Reagan administration personnel South Carolina Republicans University of Virginia School of Law alumni Washington and Lee University alumni