Alfred S. Regnery

Alfred S. Regnery (born November 21, 1942) is an American conservative lawyer, former magazine publisher, and writer.

Background Alfred S. Regnery was born on November 21, 1942, in Chicago. He is the son of Henry Regnery (1912–1996), founder of Regnery Publishing, a conservative publishing house founded in 1947.

In 1976, Regnery ran for district attorney in Madison, Wisconsin. During that campaign, his wife reported several threatening phone calls. Regnery publicized allegations to the police that his wife had been injured and forced to have sexual acts with men who had broken into their home. During the investigation, police found no evidence to substantiate the claims and allegedly discovered a "stash of pornography" in the Regnery home.

Regnery served as a legal counsel to Republican Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada and to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary.

From 2003 to 2012, Regnery was the publisher of The American Spectator. Currently, he serves as chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.

Regnery served as trustee of the Philadelphia Society from 2011 to 2014.

Other entities with which he has been associated include the Committee for Western Civilization, American Foreign Policy Council, Americans for Tax Reform, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, International Policy Forum, Institute of World Politics, Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation, Leadership Institute, Westminster Institute, White House Writers Group, Hillsdale College, Morton Blackwell, James Lucier Jr., Robert R. Reilly, Robert Schadler, and Howard Segermark.

Personal life

In 1969, Regnery married Christina S. Sparrow, who died in 2007; they had four children.

His cousin was William Regnery II, political activist and donor, founder of the National Policy Institute (NPI), and employer (through NPI) of Richard B. Spencer.

Works

U.S. direct marketing law: the complete handbook for managers with Richard J. Leighton (1993) Upstream: The Ascendance of American Conservatism (2008) Unlikely pilgrim (2019)