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{{Infobox person
|name=Richard Quin Edmonson Hillyer<br>
(Conservative journalist and columnist)
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|birth_date=March 16, 1964
|birth_place=[[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]]<br>
Resident of Mobile, [[Alabama]]
|death_date=
|death_place=
|resting_place=
|spouse=Tresy Hillyer<br>
No children
|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|religion=[[Episcopalian]]
}}
'''Richard Quin Edmonson Hillyer''' (born March 16, 1964)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/quin-hillyer/quinhillyer|title=Richard Hillyer|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=February 21, 2018}}</ref> is a [[conservative]] [[Journalist|journalist]] and [[politician]] based in Mobile, [[Alabama]]. He is the senior editor of ''[[American Spectator|The American Spectator]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://spectator.org/bio/quin-hillyer/|title=Quin Hillyer|publisher=''[[American Spectator|The American Spectator]]''|accessdate=February 21, 2018}}</ref> and has written for [[William F. Buckley, Jr.]]'s ''[[National Review]]'' ,and was named the managing editor in 1989 of the weekly news magazine ''Gambit'' in his native [[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]]. He is also the associate editorial-page editor of ''[[The Washington Examiner]]''.<ref name=natr>{{cite web|url=https://www.nationalreview.com/author/quin-hillyer/|title=Quin Hillyer|publisher=''[[National Review]]''|accessdate=February 21, 2018}}</ref>
==Background==
Hillyer is the younger of two sons of Haywood Hansell Hillyer, III (1937-2010), who is interred at Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://old.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Hillyer&GSfn=Haywood&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=155117619&df=all&
|title=Heywood Hansell Hillyer, III|publisher=Oldfindagrave.com|accessdate=February 21, 2018}}</ref> and the former Brenda Edmonson (born October 8, 1941) of Hendersonville, [[North Carolina]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/brenda-hillyer/e373204066878|title=Brenda Edmonson Hillyer|publisher-Mylife.com|accessdate=February 21, 2018}}</ref> His wife is Tresy Hillyer. His brother, Hayward Hillyer, IV (1961-2017), was a New Orleans [[insurance]] executive who remained behind during [[Hurricane Katrina]] to help with rescue efforts and to tend to property and pets left behind by his friends.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://obits.nola.com/obituaries/nola/obituary.aspx?n=haywood-hansell-hillyer&pid=187683205&fhid=5630|title=Haywood Hansell Hillyer, IV, obituary|publisher=''New Orleans Times-Picayune''|date=January 3, 2018|accessdate=February 21, 2018}}</ref>
Hillyer attended the Isidore Newman School in New Orleans before transferring to the [[Roman Catholic]]-affiliated [[Georgetown University]] in [[Washington, D.C.]], from which he graduated in 1986 with concentration in [[government]] and [[theology]].<ref name=natr/>
==Career==
After working for ''The New Orleans Times-Picayune,'' Hillyer became a research director and press secretary to former [[U.S. Representative]] [[Bob Livingston]],<ref name=natr/> whoran unsuccessfully for [[governor]] of Louisiana in 1987 and twelve years later stepped down from Louisiana's 1st congressional district, based in [[suburb]]an New Orleans, after he was exposed for an adulterous affair. Livingston had been in line to become House Speaker to succeed [[Newt Gingrich]]. In the early 1990s, Hillyer publicly opposed the Republican state Representative [[David Duke]], a former member of the [[Ku Klux Klan]] who ran for the [[U.S. Senate]] in 1990 and for the Louisiana governorship in 1991.
Hillyer has written for a wide assortment of publications, including the ''[[Wall Street Journal]],'' the ''[[Washington Post]]'', the ''[[New Republic]]'', ''[[Guardian (UK))|The Guardian]] in [[England]], the ''[[Washington Times]]'', and ''Investor's Business Daily''. In 1997, he joined the editorial staff of the ''Arkansas Democrat-Gazette'' in the capital city of [[Little Rock]], [[Arkansas]], with a focus on local and national issues during the term of Republican then-Governor [[Mike Huckabee]]. A year later in 1998, Hillyer joined the editorial desk at ''The Mobile Register'', at which he gained acclaim for his coverage of statewide politics and its effect on the city.<ref name=natr/>
In 2013, Hillyer ran in a special election in Alabama's 1st congressional district with a high-profile endorsement by former U. S. Senator [[Rick Santorum]] of [[Pennsylvania]] and finished fourth with nearly 14 percent of the vote in the Republican primary to fill the seat vacated by Jo Bonner (male),<ref name=natr/> who became vice chancellor for the [[University of Alabama]] at Tuscaloosa. Victory went to Republican [[Bradley Byrne]]. Hillyer continues to write columns and is a writer in residence at the University of Mobile.<ref name=natr/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
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[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Alabama]]
[[Category:Arkansas]]
[[Category:Journalists]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Conservatives]]
[[Category:Episcopalian]]
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{{Infobox person
|name=Richard Quin Edmonson Hillyer<br>
(Conservative journalist and columnist)
|image=
|image_size=
|birth_date=March 16, 1964
|birth_place=[[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]]<br>
Resident of Mobile, [[Alabama]]
|death_date=
|death_place=
|resting_place=
|spouse=Tresy Hillyer<br>
No children
|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|religion=[[Episcopalian]]
}}
'''Richard Quin Edmonson Hillyer''' (born March 16, 1964)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/quin-hillyer/quinhillyer|title=Richard Hillyer|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=February 21, 2018}}</ref> is a [[conservative]] [[Journalist|journalist]] and [[politician]] based in Mobile, [[Alabama]]. He is the senior editor of ''[[American Spectator|The American Spectator]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://spectator.org/bio/quin-hillyer/|title=Quin Hillyer|publisher=''[[American Spectator|The American Spectator]]''|accessdate=February 21, 2018}}</ref> and has written for [[William F. Buckley, Jr.]]'s ''[[National Review]]'' ,and was named the managing editor in 1989 of the weekly news magazine ''Gambit'' in his native [[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]]. He is also the associate editorial-page editor of ''[[The Washington Examiner]]''.<ref name=natr>{{cite web|url=https://www.nationalreview.com/author/quin-hillyer/|title=Quin Hillyer|publisher=''[[National Review]]''|accessdate=February 21, 2018}}</ref>
==Background==
Hillyer is the younger of two sons of Haywood Hansell Hillyer, III (1937-2010), who is interred at Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://old.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Hillyer&GSfn=Haywood&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=155117619&df=all&
|title=Heywood Hansell Hillyer, III|publisher=Oldfindagrave.com|accessdate=February 21, 2018}}</ref> and the former Brenda Edmonson (born October 8, 1941) of Hendersonville, [[North Carolina]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/brenda-hillyer/e373204066878|title=Brenda Edmonson Hillyer|publisher-Mylife.com|accessdate=February 21, 2018}}</ref> His wife is Tresy Hillyer. His brother, Hayward Hillyer, IV (1961-2017), was a New Orleans [[insurance]] executive who remained behind during [[Hurricane Katrina]] to help with rescue efforts and to tend to property and pets left behind by his friends.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://obits.nola.com/obituaries/nola/obituary.aspx?n=haywood-hansell-hillyer&pid=187683205&fhid=5630|title=Haywood Hansell Hillyer, IV, obituary|publisher=''New Orleans Times-Picayune''|date=January 3, 2018|accessdate=February 21, 2018}}</ref>
Hillyer attended the Isidore Newman School in New Orleans before transferring to the [[Roman Catholic]]-affiliated [[Georgetown University]] in [[Washington, D.C.]], from which he graduated in 1986 with concentration in [[government]] and [[theology]].<ref name=natr/>
==Career==
After working for ''The New Orleans Times-Picayune,'' Hillyer became a research director and press secretary to former [[U.S. Representative]] [[Bob Livingston]],<ref name=natr/> whoran unsuccessfully for [[governor]] of Louisiana in 1987 and twelve years later stepped down from Louisiana's 1st congressional district, based in [[suburb]]an New Orleans, after he was exposed for an adulterous affair. Livingston had been in line to become House Speaker to succeed [[Newt Gingrich]]. In the early 1990s, Hillyer publicly opposed the Republican state Representative [[David Duke]], a former member of the [[Ku Klux Klan]] who ran for the [[U.S. Senate]] in 1990 and for the Louisiana governorship in 1991.
Hillyer has written for a wide assortment of publications, including the ''[[Wall Street Journal]],'' the ''[[Washington Post]]'', the ''[[New Republic]]'', ''[[Guardian (UK))|The Guardian]] in [[England]], the ''[[Washington Times]]'', and ''Investor's Business Daily''. In 1997, he joined the editorial staff of the ''Arkansas Democrat-Gazette'' in the capital city of [[Little Rock]], [[Arkansas]], with a focus on local and national issues during the term of Republican then-Governor [[Mike Huckabee]]. A year later in 1998, Hillyer joined the editorial desk at ''The Mobile Register'', at which he gained acclaim for his coverage of statewide politics and its effect on the city.<ref name=natr/>
In 2013, Hillyer ran in a special election in Alabama's 1st congressional district with a high-profile endorsement by former U. S. Senator [[Rick Santorum]] of [[Pennsylvania]] and finished fourth with nearly 14 percent of the vote in the Republican primary to fill the seat vacated by Jo Bonner (male),<ref name=natr/> who became vice chancellor for the [[University of Alabama]] at Tuscaloosa. Victory went to Republican [[Bradley Byrne]]. Hillyer continues to write columns and is a writer in residence at the University of Mobile.<ref name=natr/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hillyer, Quin}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Alabama]]
[[Category:Arkansas]]
[[Category:Journalists]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Conservatives]]
[[Category:Episcopalian]]