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| name = Edgar Franklin "Ed" Foreman, Jr.​
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| name=Edgar Franklin "Ed" Foreman, Jr.​
 
| birth_date=December 22, 1933
 
| birth_date=December 22, 1933
 
| birth_place=Portales, Roosevelt County<br> [[New Mexico]], [[United States|USA]]​
 
| birth_place=Portales, Roosevelt County<br> [[New Mexico]], [[United States|USA]]​
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Foreman's message as a motivational speaker is one of health, wealth, and happiness. He caters primarily to business leaders. He is credited to the phrase, "I'm alive, I'm alert, and I feel great!"​
 
Foreman's message as a motivational speaker is one of health, wealth, and happiness. He caters primarily to business leaders. He is credited to the phrase, "I'm alive, I'm alert, and I feel great!"​
 
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==Ties to television pitchman Kevin Trudeau==
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Foreman is an associate of Kevin Mark Trudeau, who is nearly thirty years Foreman's junior.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.edforeman.com/ed-foreman-shares-his-terrific-message-with-the-global-information-network/|title=Ed Foreman Shares His Terrific Message with the Global Information Network|publisher=Ed Foreman's website|accessdate=March 17, 2014}}</ref>Trudeau is a businessman known for his fraudulent infomercials. During Trudeau's sentencing to ten years imprisonment for fraud, Foreman repeatedly interrupted the court proceedings to announce to the judge that he's a former U.S. Representative. After being told to stop interrupting, Foreman was physically removed from the courtroom and arrested.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-79649681/|author=Jason Meisner|title=TV pitchman Kevin Trudeau sentenced to 10 years in prison|publisher=''Chicago Tribune''|date=March 17, 2014|accessdate=March 25, 2020}}</ref>
    
==Philanthropy and personal life==
 
==Philanthropy and personal life==
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Early in 2006, Foreman and his brother, Harold "Chub" Foreman, also an NMSU graduate in engineering, donated $1.5 million to the School of Engineering at their ''alma mater.''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nmsu.edu/~ucomm/Releases/2006/january/foreman_gift.htm|title=Forman gift|publisher=New Mexico State University|date=January 2006; material no longer accessible}}</ref>
 
Early in 2006, Foreman and his brother, Harold "Chub" Foreman, also an NMSU graduate in engineering, donated $1.5 million to the School of Engineering at their ''alma mater.''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nmsu.edu/~ucomm/Releases/2006/january/foreman_gift.htm|title=Forman gift|publisher=New Mexico State University|date=January 2006; material no longer accessible}}</ref>
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==Ties to Television pitchman Kevin  Trudeau==​
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Foreman is an associate of Kevin Mark Trudeau, who is nearly thirty years Foreman's junior.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.edforeman.com/ed-foreman-shares-his-terrific-message-with-the-global-information-network/|title=Ed Foreman Shares His Terrific Message with the Global Information Network|publisher=Ed Foreman's website|accessdate=March 17, 2014}}</ref>Trudeau is a businessman known for his fraudulent infomercials. During Trudeau's sentencing to ten years imprisonment for fraud, Foreman repeatedly interrupted the court proceedings to announce to the judge that he's a former U.S. Representative. After being told to stop interrupting, Foreman was physically removed from the courtroom and arrested.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-79649681/|author=Jason Meisner|title=TV pitchman Kevin Trudeau sentenced to 10 years in prison|publisher=''Chicago Tribune''|date=March 17, 2014|accessdate=March 25, 2020}}</ref>
      
==References==
 
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