Anthony Brooks Firestone (born June 18, 1939)[1] is an American businessman and politician.

[2] He worked for Firestone until 1972, when he quit the company, and moved his family to the Santa Ynez Valley in California.

In 1998, he ran for the United States House of Representatives to succeed the late Walter Capps, but lost the Republican nomination to Tom Bordonaro, who went on to lose the general election to Lois Capps, the widow of the prior incumbent.

[8] In the 2004 election for the District 3 seat on the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors, Firestone defeated John Buttny, Slick Gardner and Steve Pappas.

[9] As a supervisor, Firestone was criticized for his plan to get rid of the county's Oak Tree Protection ordinance, a historic 1998 compromise between agriculture and environmental interests.