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<html> <head> <title>Phyllis Schlafly</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/silly-nndb-icon.png" /><style type="text/css">  </style></head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr><tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr><map name=fool><area coords="102,0,240,14" href="/people/862/000025787/bibliography/" alt="bibliography"></map><tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 0px 15px 15px 15px;"><img src="/red-profile-2.gif" align="right" height=15 width=240 border=0 usemap=#fool> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0>Phyllis Schlafly<img src="phyllisschlafly.jpg" height=244 width=188 align=right hspace=10 vspace=10 alt="Phyllis Schlafly">AKA Phyllis McAlpin StewartBorn: <a href="/lists/745/000106427/" class=proflink>15-Aug</a>-<a href="/lists/923/000105608/" class=proflink>1924</a> Birthplace: <a href="/geo/731/000069524/" class=proflink>St. Louis, MO</a> Died: <a href="/lists/135/000106814/" class=proflink>5-Sep</a>-<a href="/lists/166/000399963/" class=proflink>2016</a> Location of death: <a href="/geo/118/000145680/" class=proflink>Ladue, MO</a> Cause of death: unspecified Gender: Female Religion: <a href="/lists/758/000094476/" class=proflink>Roman Catholic</a> Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: <a href="/lists/199/000068992/" class=proflink>Activist</a> Party Affiliation: RepublicanNationality: United States Executive summary: Opponent of women's liberationCame to national attention in 1964 with a self-published book, A Choice, Not an Echo, denouncing "centrist" or "moderate" Republicans and backing <a href="/people/684/000026606/">Barry Goldwater</a>'s firmly conservative Presidential candidacy. The book earned her a wide following, and was distributed as campaign literature by the Goldwater campaign. Her husband was an attorney, and after more than twenty years of marriage she went to law school and became an attorney herself. She ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 1952 and 1970, but her greatest success was as an anti-feminist activist who led the campaign which successfully opposed passage of the Equal Rights Amendment (EPA) in the 1970s. Founder of the <a href="/org/502/000042376/">Eagle Forum</a>, which still works to oppose legalized abortion, same-sex marriage, sex education in schools, equal pay requirements for women, etc. Schlafly has been an outspoken critic of "activist judges," and has called for impeachment of Supreme Court Justice <a href="/people/910/000023841/">Anthony Kennedy</a>. She has also worked with <a href="/people/244/000059067/">Jerome Corsi</a> to oppose the "North American Union," a merging of the United States, Canada, and Mexico into a European Union-style unified government with a unified currency to be called the Amero. Basically a conspiracy theory, the North American Union is a proposal discussed occasionally in academia or science fiction, but it has never been seriously proposed or pursued by any of the three governments that would be involved. Now in her 90s, she remains active and admired in conservative circles. Her son, <a href="/people/378/000172859/">Andrew Schlafly</a>, is the founder and publisher of Conservapedia, the right-tilted answer to Wikipedia. Another son, attorney John F. Schlafly, is gay, and was outed by gay-rights activists -- political opponents of his mother -- in 1992. In response, he told the Los Angeles Times, "The family values movement is not anti-gay. They're not gay-bashers. I hold my mother in very high esteem. She's doing good work."Father: John Bruce Stewart (machinist/inventor) Mother: Odile Dodge (librarian) Husband: John Fred Schlafly, Jr. (attorney, b. 1909, m. 1949, d. 1993) Son: John Fred Schlafly III (attorney, gay) Son: Bruce Son: Roger Daughter: Lisa Son: <a href="/people/378/000172859/">Andrew Schlafly</a> (Conservapedia founder) Daughter: Anne     University: <a href="/edu/630/000079393/">BA, Washington University in St. Louis (1944)</a>     University: <a href="/edu/568/000068364/">MA Government, Radcliffe College (1945)</a>     Law School: <a href="/edu/630/000079393/">JD, Washington University in St. Louis (1978)</a>     <a href="/media/017/000133615/">Texas Review of Law & Politics</a> Board of Advisors     <a href="/org/124/000133722/">Center for Military Readiness</a> Board of Advisors     <a href="/org/700/000051547/">Council for National Policy</a>     <a href="/org/503/000042377/">Daughters of the American Revolution</a> Ninian Edwards Chapter, Alton, IL     <a href="/org/502/000042376/">Eagle Forum</a> Founder (1972)     <a href="/org/835/000041712/">John Birch Society</a>     <a href="/org/508/000215860/">Mandate to Save America</a>     National Federation of Republican Women     <a href="/org/189/000118832/">District of Columbia Bar</a>     <a href="/org/505/000117154/">Illinois State Bar Association</a>     <a href="/org/500/000117149/">Missouri Bar Association</a>     <a href="/org/499/000355431/">Todd Akin for Senate</a>     <a href="/org/935/000127554/">US Supreme Court Bar</a>     <a href="/org/465/000041342/">Pi Sigma Alpha Honor Society</a>     <a href="/org/512/000041389/">Phi Beta Kappa Society</a>     <a href="/event/911/000093632/">Pied</a> apple, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City (1977)     <a href="/lists/823/000206205/">Evolution Skeptics</a>     <a href="/lists/724/000206106/">Global Warming Skeptics</a>     <a href="/lists/223/000044091/">Scottish Ancestry</a> Author of books: A Choice, Not an Echo (<tt>1964</tt>, nonfiction) The Gravediggers (<tt>1964</tt>, with Chester Ward) Strike From Space: How the Russians May Destroy Us (<tt>1966</tt>, with Chester Ward) Safe Not Sorry (<tt>1967</tt>) The Betrayers (<tt>1968</tt>) Kissinger on the Couch (<tt>1975</tt>, with Chester Ward) Ambush At Vladivostok (<tt>1976</tt>) The Power of the Positive Woman (<tt>1977</tt>) Feminist Fantasies (<tt>2003</tt>) The Supremacists: The Tyranny of Judges and How to Stop It (<tt>2004</tt>) <table> <tr> <td align=right valign=middle style="padding-right: 5px;">New! <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a></td> <td valign=middle align=right style="border-left: 1px solid #bbb; padding-left: 5px;">Create a map starting with</td> <td valign=middle align=right><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=25787"><img src="/woman.gif" border=0 style="padding: 2px;"></a></td> <td align=left valign=middle> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=25787">Phyllis Schlafly</a></td> </tr> </table> Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript. 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