List of American conservatives

Defunct Newspapers Journals TV channels Websites Other Congressional caucuses Economics Gun rights Identity politics Nativist Religion Watchdog groups Youth/student groups Social media Miscellaneous Other American conservatism is a broad system of political beliefs in the United States characterized by respect for American traditions, republicanism, support for Judeo-Christian values,[1] moral absolutism,[2] free markets and free trade,[3][4] anti-communism,[4][5] individualism,[4] advocacy of American exceptionalism,[6] and a defense of Western culture from the threats, whether real or perceived, posed by anarchism, communism, socialism, liberalism, authoritarianism, and moral relativism.

[7] The recent movement is based in the Republican Party, though some Democrats were also important figures early in the movement's history.

[8][9] The following list is made up of prominent American conservatives from the public and private sectors.

The list also includes political parties, organizations and media outlets which have made a notable impact on conservatism in the United States.

Entries on the list must have achieved notability after 1932, the beginning of the Fifth Party System.

William F. Buckley Jr. , conservative writer
Bill Kristol , conservative writer
Phyllis Schlafly speaking at CPAC 2011
Donald Trump speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)
Mike Pence speaks at a campaign rally in Phoenix, Arizona , August 2016.
Sarah Palin speaking at the CPAC
Vice President Dick Cheney (right) with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld (left) and President George W. Bush (center)
Senator Barry Goldwater (right) meeting with President Ronald Reagan (left) in the oval office in 1984
Congresswoman Liz Cheney in 2016
Billy Graham , evangelical minister
Michael Medved , conservative radio show host
Conservative in politics and social matters, Hopper asserted for example that artists' lives should be written by people very close to them. However, he accepted things as they were and displayed a lack of idealism.
Punk rock pioneer Johnny Ramone was into conservative politics as early as age 11. This was evident when he rooted for Richard Nixon in the 1960 United States presidential election [ 189 ]
Director Cecil B. DeMille , on who actor Edward G. Robinson wrote, "No more conservative or patriarchal figure existed in Hollywood , no one more opposed to communism or any permutation or combination thereof." [ 296 ]
Producer Hal Roach was a member of the arch-conservative American Liberty League [ 297 ]
Director Mel Gibson
Producer Steve Mnuchin
Jack Kerouac was a lifelong Republican, being quoted as saying: "My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always." [ 356 ]
Poet E. E. Cummings was a devout Republican who supported Calvin Coolidge and later on Senator Joseph McCarthy [ 357 ]
Crime fiction writer James Ellroy 's works frequently touch on topics such as political corruption
Hoover Tower at Stanford University, location of the Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Headquarters of Focus on the Family in Colorado Springs, Colorado
U.S. Chamber of Commerce Building in Washington, D.C.
The studios of Fox News in 2009
The newsroom of The Washington Times