Jack Kemp is Founder and Chairman of Kemp Partners, a strategic consulting firm which seeks to provide clients with strategic counsel, relationship development, and marketing advice in helping them accomplish business and policy objectives. Jack Kemp has also been honorary co-chairman of the Free Enterprise Fund since its inception in January 2005. From January 1993 until July 2004 Jack Kemp was co-director of Empower America, a Washington, D.C.-based public policy and advocacy organization he co-founded with William Bennett and Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick. In September 2001, Jack Kemp helped form a new non-partisan, non-profit think tank, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, to counter the terrorist propaganda efforts, and he has been writing a weekly syndicated column for the Copley News Service nationwide since February of 2000. Jack Kemp received the Republican Party's nomination for Vice President in August of 1996 and since then has campaigned nationally for reform of taxation, Social Security and education. In 1995, Jack Kemp served as chairman of the National Commission on Economic Growth and Tax Reform, which promoted major reform and simplification on our tax code in order to unleash the American entrepreneurial spirit, increase economic growth and expand access to capital for all people. Prior to founding Empower America, Jack Kemp served for four years as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Jack Kemp was the author of the Enterprise Zones legislation to encourage entrepreneurship and job creation in urban America and continues to advocate the expansion of home ownership among the poor through resident management and ownership of public and subsidized housing. Before his appointment to the Cabinet, Jack Kemp represented the Buffalo area and western New York for 18 years in the United States House of Representatives from 1971-1989. He served for seven years in the Republican Leadership as Chairman of the House Republican Conference. Before his election to Congress in 1970, Jack Kemp played 13 years as a professional football quarterback. He was captain of the San Diego Chargers from 1960-1962. He was also the captain of the Buffalo Bills, the team he quarterbacked to the American Football League Championship in 1964 and 1965, when he was named the league's most valuable player. He co-founded the American Football League Players Association and was five times elected president of that Association. In 2005 Jack Kemp was recognized by Sporting News as one of the Top 50 Best All Time Quarterbacks. Jack Kemp was born and raised in Los Angeles and educated in the LA public schools. Jack Kemp married Joanne Main of Fillmore, CA, also a graduates of Occidental College. They have four children (Jeffrey, Jennifer, Judith and Jimmy) and fifteen grandchildren. Jack Kemp passed away in May 2009, at the age of 73. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2009 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Tue, 03 Feb 2009 05:00:00 GMT Tue, 03 Feb 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ No matter where we are on Feb. 12, every American from sea to shining sea will celebrate the 200th birthday of our greatest president -- Abraham Lincoln. Song, speech, pageant and ceremony will mark the occasion. The... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2009/02/03/honoring_lincoln cebf738b-4753-4b7f-a565-81795914320a Tue, 03 Feb 2009 05:00:00 GMT Dear Kemp grandchildren -- all 17 of you, spread out from the East Coast to the West Coast, and from Wheaton College in Illinois, to Wake Forest University in North Carolina: My first thought last week upon learning... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2008/11/12/a_letter_to_my_grandchildren 01415997-2555-492e-bf53-2bc3a157d482 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT Are Barack Obama's proposed tax increases adversely affecting our financial markets? We say yes, unambiguously. The senator has done a masterful job distracting attention from his tax increases with his $500-per-worker... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2008/10/28/the_treats_to_our_markets ad33a45f-416d-42be-902b-5006aad01287 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:36:38 GMT This column is co-authored with Peter Ferrara, who is director of entitlement and budget policy for the Institute for Policy Innovation, and formerly served in the Reagan White House Barack Obama says he supports a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2008/09/16/tax_cuts_for_the_middle_class c2d1f9ca-1a28-422d-926f-8098b167f54e Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:10:00 GMT "It's a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today and tax revenues are too low, and the soundest way to raise revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now." Those are the words of President John http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2008/08/08/obama_versus_mccain_on_the_economy 977a56dd-da98-41c0-b840-4ebf5986ede1 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:29:52 GMT The future of Social Security presents not just a crisis for America, but an even bigger opportunity. For Social Security reform done right is a huge opportunity for a historic breakthrough in the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2008/07/23/stop_the_raid 632fab8b-4c16-481f-8f41-688fe60ae36a Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:33:08 GMT It's no secret that these are uncertain economic times. With the cost of food and energy rising almost daily, one might expect politicians to work overtime to keep taxes on other consumer goods from adding to the cost... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2008/05/19/take_a_timeout_on_unfair_cell_phone_taxes b813ae0e-ede4-48dc-a623-d7233c256e12 Mon, 19 May 2008 19:40:30 GMT As I prepare to travel to Israel this June - my second mission for the American-Israeli Friendship League and the Israel Finance Ministry - I also will be participating in the celebration of the 60th anniversary of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2008/05/12/a_celebration_of_israels_progress 2b58e490-dd6a-4e48-8d2a-c633a53c40f5 Mon, 12 May 2008 21:26:03 GMT "McCain offers tax policies he once opposed" (headline, first page of The Washington Post, April 25, 2008) Ah, remember the good old days of opinion columns appearing on the opinion page opposite a newspaper's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2008/05/06/mccains_tax_policies_best_for_nations_future 3ecf2f0a-f5d4-4008-ad0d-6a6f4450660d Tue, 06 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT In the early 1970s, as I began serving in the U.S. Congress representing Buffalo, N.Y., I remember the disdain (and disgust) I felt as the Republican Party was torn apart by President Nixon's Watergate follies, and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2008/03/11/a_strong_america_needs_a_strong_dollar 900c283f-e6b2-4525-8ae6-c10863c6c174 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:01:00 GMT Dear fellow conservatives: I'm writing to you soon after Mitt Romney suspended his campaign and Sen. John McCain addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference, not to calm you down, but to put McCain's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2008/02/11/an_open_letter_to_rush,_sean,_laura,_ann,_mark,_et_al 98fcf282-7bfc-40fb-8628-7004ae5b43f9 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:14:28 GMT Believe it or not, federal spending has been stable at around 20 percent of the gross domestic product for more than 50 years, ever since it settled down after World War II. Conservatives have been relatively... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2007/11/27/reform_entitlement_programs_without_increasing_taxes 419028ea-e139-4a06-b881-3d998143e4fe Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:01:00 GMT Dear senators and members of Congress: I recently visited NASDAQ on behalf of NFL Hall of Famer Ronnie Lott to help raise money for his "All Stars Helping Kids" program, and while I was there I had the opportunity to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2007/10/19/the_link_between_foreign_investment_and_peace 56caf986-5223-4af5-be21-f4d828008561 Fri, 19 Oct 2007 04:01:00 GMT The great "existentialist philosopher" Yogi Berra once famously said, "history is just one damn thing after another." Of course the antithesis of Yogi was George Santayana, an equally famous philosopher who said wisely,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2007/08/14/the_25-year_bull_market 9a32dee2-2f92-4c77-8b8b-fdcef0df0643 Tue, 14 Aug 2007 04:01:00 GMT Watching the third debate between the Democratic candidates for president on PBS at Howard University, I was struck by the juxtaposition of mostly white men and women discussing issues primarily related to people of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2007/07/03/the_gop_and_the_black_vote_in_08 f0aa8602-3e84-493f-8e7c-7e88da66e209 Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:30:00 GMT