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Institutional
Affiliations
Frontiers
of Freedom: Founder and Chairman (1995-current) (1)
The Heritage
Foundation: Chung Yu-Jung Fellow for Policy Studies (3)
Project
for the New American Century: Statement on the Defense of Taiwan:
Signatory (1999) (4)
Government
Posts/Panels/Commissions
Commission
to Assess United States National Security Space Management and Organization
("Rumsfeld Space Commission"): Commissioner (2000-2001)
(5)
U.S. Senate:
Wyoming Senator (1977-1995) (2)
Wyoming
Senate: Senator (1973-1976) (2)
Wyoming
House of Representatives: Congressman (1969-1972) (2)
U.S. Army:
First Lieutenant (1955-1957) (1)
Corporate
Connections/Business Interests
Hubbell,
Inc.: Member of the Board (1)
El Paso
Energy Company: Member of the Board (1)
Sheridan
State Bank: Member of the Board (1)
Education
Yale University:
B.A. (1)
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Highlights
& Quotes
From his Rumsfeld
Space Commission resume: "Senator Wallop is currently a Senior
Fellow with the Heritage Foundation and chairs Frontiers of Freedom,
a non-profit public policy organization he established in January
1995. Previously he served as a U.S. Senator from Wyoming (1977-95).
In 1977 he was the first elected official to propose a space-based
missile defense system. Prior to serving in the U.S. Senate, he
was a rancher, a businessman, and a member of the Wyoming Legislature
(1969-76)."
From his Heritage
bio: "Senator Malcom Wallop is the Chung Ju-Yung Fellow for
Policy Studies, the first named fellowship in the Asian Studies
Center. In this position Wallop focuses on U.S. trade and security
policy toward Asia, with a special emphasis on the future of the
Korean Peninsula. He analyzes relations between North and South
Korea, produces policy studies on the eventual reunification of
the two, and travels to the Republic of Korea at least once a year.
He also promotes enhanced two-way trade between Asia and the United
States, producing studies that identify barriers to such trade and
developing policies to remove them. Wallop's fellowship, made possible
by a grant from the Hyundai Group of South Korea, is named in honor
Chung Ju-Yung, Hyundai's Founder and long-time Chairman. Wallop
was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1976 and held his seat for 18
years, retiring in 1994. A 1954 graduate of Yale University, he
also has served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army."
From Frontiers
of Freedom bio: "In 1978, Senator Wallop was the first elected
official to propose a space based missile defense system, a program
that later became part of the Strategic Defense Initiative."
Not only an
advocate of controversial weapons programs like missile defense
and space-based weapons, Wallop also champions conservative domestic
policies. For example, in 2000 testimony before the House of Representatives
Committee on Resources regarding proposed legislation that would
give the federal government tighter control over public lands, Wallop
said: "There are people all across the country, however, who
will be the targets rather than the beneficiaries of H. R. 701 [the
Permanent Protection for America's Resources 2000 Act]. . . . In
particular, I hope you will travel to the Northern Forests of Maine,
upstate New York, New Hampshire, and Vermont, which are now under
assault by the preservationists; and to an area in the West, such
as my own State of Wyoming, where the committee can learn about
the negative environmental and economic consequences of massive
government land ownership." (6)
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