Henry Regnery

Henry Francis Regnery (1912–1996) was a conservative American publisher who founded the newspaper Human Events and the Henry Regnery Company (1947) and published Russell Kirk's classic work The Conservative Mind (1953).

Early life and education Regnery was born on January 5, 1912, in Hinsdale, Illinois, the second-youngest of five children of Frances Susan Thrasher and William Henry Regnery, a wealthy Catholic textile manufacturer who had emigrated from Ensch, Germany.

He obtained a BS in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1933, and an MA from Harvard University, where he worked with Joseph Schumpeter. ), and McCarthy attended a reception for the authors.

In the early 1950s, Regnery published two books by Robert Welch, who went on to found the John Birch Society in 1958. In May God Forgive Us, Welch criticized influential foreign-policy analysts and policymakers and accused many of working to further Communism as part of a conspiracy. In 1954, Regnery published Welch's biography of John Birch, an American Baptist missionary in China who was killed by Chinese Communists after he became a U.S. intelligence officer in World War II.

Regnery sold Henry Regnery Company and started Regnery Publishing, which son Alfred inherited. and president of the Philadelphia Society.

Personal life and death Regnery married Eleanor Scattergood; they had four children: Alfred S. Regnery (1942), Henry Francis Regnery Jr. (1945), Susan Regnery Schnitzler, and Margaret Regnery Caron. Their son Henry Francis Regnery Jr. was killed with the crash of American Airlines Flight 191 in 1979.

Regnery died age 84 on June 18, 1996, in Chicago of complications of brain surgery. The Cliff Dwellers: The History of a Chicago Cultural Institution (1990) Creative Chicago: From the Chap-Book to the University (1993) A Few Reasonable Words: Selected Writings (1996) Chapbooks, pamphlets Congruences and Residues (1934) Wyndham Lewis: A Man Against His Time (1969) Russell Kirk: An Appraisal (1980) William H. Regnery and His Family (1981) The Present State of Book Publishing (1984) A Prophet Without Honor in His Own Country: Francis F. Browne and The Dial (1985) To Edit or Not to Edit (1995)

Legacy Henry Regnery's papers are kept at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.