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R. Quin Edmonson Hillyer (born March 16, 1964) is an American newspaper columnist and writer. On May 24, 2013, he announced his candidacy for the United States House of Representatives from Alabama's 1st congressional district,〔 〕 but he was eliminated from contention in the September 24 special election, having finished fourth in the Republican primary. ==Education and early career== Hillyer was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana and graduated from the Isidore Newman School in 1982 before matriculating at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., graduating with an A.B. in government and theology (cum laude) in 1986. While at Georgetown, Hillyer held major editorial positions at the student newspaper, ''The Hoya'', and wrote extensively during the school’s Final Four basketball appearances in 1984 and 1985. After his graduation Hillyer joined the ''New Orleans Times-Picayune'' as a correspondent before a term as research/issues director for the Louisiana gubernatorial campaign of U.S. Representative Bob Livingston in 1987. He served as an unpaid director in the state campaign for Pete Dupont’s 1988 GOP presidential bid. A former page at the 1980 Republican National Convention, Hillyer attended the 1988 Republican convention as an alternate delegate from the state of Louisiana. Following the 1988 elections, former Louisiana Democrat David Duke switched parties in an attempt to reach higher office. Duke’s rise in Republican circles were troubling to many Louisiana public- and private-sector officials. Hillyer, serving as state chairman of the Louisiana Young Republicans, was among a group of ten, which also included Beth Rickey, who founded the Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism, a bipartisan group which sought to publicly counter assertions that Duke had severed ties to the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist groups. The Coalition opposed Duke’s revisionist history and exposed a number of his ongoing associations with these groups, factors which may have contributed to Duke's lack of success in statewide races for U.S. Senate in 1990 and governor in 1991. In 1989, Hillyer became managing editor of ''Gambit'', a weekly newsmagazine in the New Orleans area. He later joined Congressman Livingston's staff in 1991, rising to the position of press secretary as Livingston rose to the chairmanship of the House Appropriations Committee in 1995. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Quin Hillyer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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