Grover Norquist

Grover Norquist (born October 19, 1956, Sharon, Pennsylvania, U.S.) is an American political activist and strategist for conservative and libertarian causes, especially the reduction of taxes. As president of the lobbying organization Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), he built a coalition of interest groups that had a profound influence on Republican Party policy in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Norquist was raised in suburban Boston. His father, an executive at Polaroid, instilled in...