Margaret Hoover

Margaret Hoover

Margaret Claire Hoover is an American conservative political commentator, political strategist, media personality, author, and great-granddaughter of Herbert Hoover. Hoover worked for the George W. Bush administration as Associate Director of Intergovernmental Affairs. Hoover is married to fellow CNN contributor John Avlon, a former Rudy Giuliani speechwriter, senior columnist for Newsweek, and former Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Beast.

About Margaret Hoover in brief

Summary Margaret HooverMargaret Claire Hoover is an American conservative political commentator, political strategist, media personality, author, and great-granddaughter of Herbert Hoover. Hoover hosts PBS’s reboot of the conservative interview show Firing Line. Hoover worked for the George W. Bush administration as Associate Director of Intergovernmental Affairs. Hoover is married to fellow CNN contributor John Avlon, a former Rudy Giuliani speechwriter, senior columnist for Newsweek, and former Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Beast.

She has a son, Jack, born in 2013, and a daughter, Toula Lou, born on June 2, 2018, on WNET, which serves the New York metropolitan area. In May 2019, the Algemeiner named Hoover its Journalist of the Year for her work on F firing Line.