Jeffrey Bell | |
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Personal details | |
Born |
Washington, D.C., U.S. |
December 13, 1943
Political party | Republican |
Spouse(s) | Rosalie O'Connell |
Children | 4 |
Alma mater | Columbia University |
Military service | |
Allegiance | United States |
Service/branch | United States Army |
Battles/wars | Vietnam War |
Jeffrey L. Bell (born December 13, 1943) is an American Republican Party politician, political consultant, author and former presidential speechwriter. He was the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate from New Jersey in 1978, was a candidate for the Republican nomination for the Senate in 1982, and was the nominee against Democratic incumbent Cory Booker in 2014.
A native of Washington, D.C., Bell is a graduate of Columbia University in New York City and a veteran of the Vietnam War. He is married to the former Rosalie O'Connell, the father of four children, and resides in Annandale in Fairfax County, Virginia, and Leonia in Bergen County in northeastern New Jersey
Bell is a former president of the Manhattan Institute, has served as a fellow of the Harvard Institute of Politics at Harvard University; a visiting professor at the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University; and as the DeWitt Wallace Fellow in Communications at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. He presently serves on the board of directors of the American Conservative Union and of the Campaign Finance Institute at George Washington University. Bell is also a visiting scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.