Grover Norquist

Grover Norquist is president of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), a taxpayer advocacy group he founded in 1985 at President Reagan’s request. ATR works to limit the size and cost of government and opposes higher taxes at the federal, state, and local levels and supports tax reform that moves towards taxing consumed income one time at one rate.

ATR organizes the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, which asks all candidates for federal and state office to commit themselves in writing to the American people to oppose all net tax increases. In the 115th Congress, 212 House members and 45 Senators have taken the pledge.

Norquist chairs the Washington, DC-based Wednesday Meeting, a weekly gathering of more than 150 elected officials, political activists, and movement leaders. The meeting started in 1993 and takes place in ATR's conference room. There are now 48 similar center-right meetings in 40 states.

Norquist also serves on the board of the Parental Rights Organization and Center for the National Interest, as a Contributing Editor to the American Spectator Magazine, and as president of the American Society of Competitiveness. He has authored four books: "Rock the House," "Leave Us Alone – Getting the Government’s Hands Off Our Money, Our Guns, Our Lives," "Debacle: Obama’s War on Jobs and Growth and What We Can Do Now to Regain Our Future," and "End the IRS Before it Ends Us — How to Restore a Low Tax, High Growth, Wealthy America."

Previously, Norquist served on the board of directors of the National Rifle Association of America, from 2000 - 2018. He has also served as a commissioner on the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce the National Commission on Restructuring the Internal Revenue Service. He has been an economist and chief speech-writer for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and on campaign staff on the 1988, 1992, 1996 Republican Platform Committees. Finally, he was the executive director of the National Taxpayers’ Union and College Republicans.

Norquist holds an MBA and a BA in Economics, both from Harvard University. He lives in Washington, DC with his wife, Samah, and two daughters.