 Mr. Kemp is Founder
and Chairman of Kemp
Partners, a strategic
consulting firm which
seeks to provide clients
with strategic counsel,
relationship development,
and marketing advice
in helping them accomplish
business and policy
objectives.
In March 2005 Mr.
Kemp was asked to
co-chair the Council
on Foreign Relations’ Russia
Task Force with Senator
John Edwards. He has
also served on Speaker
Hastert’s Saving
America’s Cities
Working Group since
early 2005.
From January 1993
until July 2004 he
was co-director of
Empower America, a
Washington, D.C.-based
public policy and
advocacy organization
he co-founded with
William Bennett and
Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick.
In September 2001,
Mr. Kemp helped form
a new non-partisan,
non-profit think tank,
the Foundation for
the Defense of Democracies
to counter the terrorist
propaganda efforts,
and he has been writing
a weekly syndicated
column for the Copley
News Service nationwide
since February of
2000.
Mr. Kemp received
the Republican Party’s
nomination for Vice
President in August
of 1996 and since
then has campaigned
nationally for reform
of taxation, Social
Security and education.
In 1995, Honorable Jack Kemp
served as chairman
of the National Commission
on Economic Growth
and Tax Reform, which
promoted major reform
and simplification
on our tax code in
order to unleash the
American entrepreneurial
spirit, increase economic
growth and expand
access to capital
for all people.
Prior to founding
Empower America, Mr.
Kemp served for four
years as Secretary
of Housing and Urban
Development. He was
the author of the
Enterprise Zones legislation
to encourage entrepreneurship
and job creation in
urban America and
continues to advocate
the expansion of home
ownership among the
poor through resident
management and ownership
of public and subsidized
housing.
Before his appointment
to the Cabinet, Mr.
Kemp represented the
Buffalo area and western
New York for 18 years
in the United States
House of Representatives
from 1971-1989. He
served for seven years
in the Republican
Leadership as Chairman
of the House Republican
Conference.
Before his election
to Congress in 1970,
Mr. Kemp played 13
years as a professional
football quarterback.
He was captain of
the San Diego Chargers
from 1960-1962. He
was also the captain
of the Buffalo Bills,
the team he quarterbacked
to the American Football
League Championship
in 1964 and 1965,
when he was named
the league’s
most valuable player.
He co-founded the
American Football
League Players Association
and was five times
elected president
of that Association.
In 2006 Mr. Kemp was
named as one of the
NCAA’s “100
Most Influential Student-Athletes”.
He was also recognized
by Sporting News as
one of the Top 50
Quarterbacks of All
Time in 2005.
Mr. Kemp was born
and raised in Los
Angeles and educated
in the LA public schools.
He is married to the
former Joanne Main
of Fillmore, CA. Both
are graduates of Occidental
College. They have
four children (Jeffrey,
Jennifer, Judith and
Jimmy) and seventeen
grandchildren. The
Kemps reside in Bethesda,
Maryland and have
a home in Vail, Colorado.
They are also founding
members and Advisory
Board members of the
Yellowstone Private
Ski & Golf Club
in Big Sky, Montana. |
