Henry Regnery

Regnery was born on January 5, 1912, in Hinsdale, Illinois, the second-youngest of five children of Frances Susan Thrasher and William Henry Regnery, a wealthy Catholic textile manufacturer who had emigrated from Ensch, Germany. He obtained a BS in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1933, and an MA from Harvard University, where he worked with Joseph Schumpeter. He also studied at Armour Institute of Technology, and from 1934 to 1936 at the University of Bonn. == Career ==

After graduation, Regnery worked for the New Deal's Resettlement Administration), and McCarthy attended a reception for the authors. In the early 1950s, Regnery published two books by Robert Welch, who went on to found the John Birch Society in 1958. In May God Forgive Us, Welch criticized influential foreign-policy analysts and policymakers and accused many of working to further Communism as part of a conspiracy. In 1954, Regnery published Welch's biography of John Birch, an American Baptist missionary in China who was killed by Chinese Communists after he became a U.S. intelligence officer in World War II. Regnery sold Henry Regnery Company and started Regnery Publishing, which son Alfred inherited. and president of the Philadelphia Society. == Personal life and death ==

Regnery married Eleanor Scattergood; they had four children: Alfred S. Regnery (1942), Henry Francis Regnery Jr. (1945), Susan Regnery Schnitzler, and Margaret Regnery Caron. Their son Henry Francis Regnery Jr. was killed with the crash of American Airlines Flight 191 in 1979. Regnery died age 84 on June 18, 1996, in Chicago of complications of brain surgery. His nephew, William Regnery II, became the founder of the white nationalist organizations Charles Martel Society and National Policy Institute. == Works ==

Works written by Regnery include: ;Books • Memoirs of a Dissident Publisher (1985) • Creative Chicago: From the Chap-Book to the University (1993) == References ==