Margaret Hoover

Margaret Hoover is an American conservative political commentator, political strategist, media personality, feminist, gay rights activist, author, and great-granddaughter of Herbert Hoover, the 31st U.S. President. She is the best-selling author of the book American Individualism: How A New Generation of Conservatives Can Save the Republican Party, published by Crown Forum in July 2011. In 2018, Hoover became the host of PBS's reboot of the longest-running public affairs show in television history, Firing Line.

Hoover also served as the White House Associate Director of Intergovernmental Affairs under President George W. Bush and as the deputy finance director for Rudy Giuliani’s Presidential exploratory committee.

Using her political platform, Hoover has become an influential advocate for gay rights. In January 2011, she testified before the Maryland Senate on behalf of gay marriage and later, took an active role in the 2012 battle to win gay marriage in New York. She has served on the Advisory Board for the American Foundation for Equal Rights, and is co-chair and founder of the group Young Conservatives for the Freedom to Marry. In 2013 Hoover was a signatory to an amicus curiae brief submitted to the Supreme Court in support of same-sex marriage in Hollingsworth v. Perry.