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Margaret Hoover , John Avlon
New York Times, The (NY) - Sunday, November 8, 2009
Margaret Claire Hoover and John Phillips Avlon were married Saturday at Stanford Memorial Church in Palo Alto, Calif. The Rev. Susan Scott, a Lutheran minister, officiated, with the Rev. Samuel Johnson Howard, the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Florida, taking part.

The bride, 31, will continue to use her name professionally. She is a political and media consultant in New York and a commentator on the Fox News Channel. She graduated from Bryn Mawr. From June 2004 to November 2005, she worked at the White House as the associate director of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.

She is a great-granddaughter of Herbert Hoover , the 31st president of the United States. She is on the board of overseers of the Hoover Institution at Stanford and on the board of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association in West Branch, Iowa.

She is the daughter of Jean W. Hoover and Andrew Hoover of Littleton, Colo. Her father, a mining engineer, retired from Greenfield Engineering in Denver. He is also on the board of the Hoover library association. Her mother retired as a flight attendant for United Airlines.

The bridegroom, 36, is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a columnist at The Daily Beast. He graduated from Yale and received an M.B.A. from Columbia. In 2007 and 2008, he was the chief speechwriter and the deputy director of policy for the presidential campaign of Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York. He is the author of “Independent Nation: How Centrists Can Change American Politics” (Crown, 2004). He is on the boards of the Bronx Academy of Letters, a high school, and the Citizens Union of New York.

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WE HEAR . . .
New York Post (NY) - Monday, February 22, 2010

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THAT the left and right of the political spectrum came together at Tina Brown’s house the other day to celebrate pundit John Avlon ‘s new book, “Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe Is Hijacking America” - the first tome from the Beast Books imprint. Guests including Peggy Noonan, Carl Bernstein, Kiran Chetry, Rich Lowry, Mark McKinnon and Stanley Crouch all toasted Avlon and his new bride, Fox News star Margaret Hoover , the great-grandaughter of Herbert - and nobody threw a drink.