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Larry P. Arnn
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Arnn in February 2018
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| 12th President of Hillsdale College | |
| Assumed office May 2000 |
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| Preceded by | George Roche III |
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Larry Paul Arnn
October 8, 1952 Pocahontas, Arkansas, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse | Penny Arnn |
| Education | Arkansas State University (BA) London School of Economics Worcester College, Oxford Claremont Graduate School (MA, PhD) |
Larry Paul Arnn (born October 8, 1952) is an American educator and writer. He has served as the twelfth president of private college Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, since May 2000. He is a political conservative who has been influenced by the thought of Leo Strauss and Strauss's student and Arnn's teacher Harry V. Jaffa.
Early life and education
Arnn was born October 8, 1952, in Pocahontas, Arkansas. He attended Arkansas State University, where he received a BA in political science and accounting in 1974. He earned two graduate degrees in government from Claremont Graduate School, an M.A. in 1976 and a Ph.D. in 1985. Arnn studied international history at the London School of Economics and modern history at Worcester College, Oxford.
While in England, he worked as director of research for Martin Gilbert, the official biographer of Winston Churchill, editing the final six document volumes of the Churchill biography.
Career
In 1980, Arnn became an editor for Public Research, Syndicated in the United States. He was one of four founders of the Claremont Institute in Claremont, California, and served as its president from 1985 to 2000. In 2000, he was named the 12th president of Hillsdale College. In 2001, he committed to raise $400 million for the college's Founders Campaign. Since becoming the college's president, several new buildings have arisen on the campus.
In 2002, Arnn was appointed a trustee at The Heritage Foundation. In 2012, the foundation offered its presidency to Arnn, but he instead opted to remain in academia and the foundation instead hired Jim DeMint, a U.S. Senator from South Carolina, as its president.
Arnn is a member of the board of directors of the Henry Salvatori Center for the Study of Individual Freedom in the Modern World at Claremont McKenna College, the Center for Individual Rights, the Claremont Institute, and a member of the board of advisors of the Landmark Legal Foundation. He is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society, the Churchill Centre, and the Philanthropy Roundtable. As of 2014, he was listed as a member of the Council for National Policy.
In December 2020, he was appointed chair of the 1776 Commission, an advisory committee on patriotic education, but the commission was immediately terminated by President Joe Biden on the first day of his presidency.
Personal life
Arnn married his wife Penny, who is British, in 1979. They later moved to California, where they had three children and adopted a fourth. They moved to Michigan in 2000, when Arnn succeeded George Roche as president of Hillsdale College. Arnn's father-in-law was Colonel Denis Arthur Sydenham Houghton, who was once the High Sheriff of Lancashire.
