Stanley Bruce Herschensohn | |
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Born |
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States |
September 10, 1932
Residence | Washington, D.C. |
Spouse(s) | Bunny Domenic, March 8, 1963 |
Parent(s) | Herbert Lawrence Herschensohn Ida Esther (Erlichman) Herschensohn |
Stanley Bruce Herschensohn (born September 10, 1932) is an American political commentator, author and senior fellow at the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy in Malibu, California.
Herschensohn quickly rose to prominence in the Republican Party, becoming a consultant to the Republican National Convention in 1972 and joined the Nixon administration on September 11, 1972. He served primarily as a speech writer. He left following Nixon's resignation, but served on the Ronald Reagan Presidential Transition Team and as an official in the Reagan administration.
Previously, Herschensohn has been a Distinguished Fellow at the Claremont Institute and a fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has taught politics at the University of Maryland, Whittier College and at Pepperdine University's School of Public Policy.
In 1986, Herschensohn unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for the United States Senate seat held by Democrat Alan Cranston. He finished far ahead of the crowded pack in the Central Valley and Orange County, but finished second to U.S. Representative Ed Zschau of the Silicon Valley, who won the nomination by plurality.