Henry F. Hewes

Henry Hewes was born in 1946 at Columbia Presbyterian hospital in New York City. Mr. Hewes is the son of the late Saturday Review & Literature Drama critic Henry Hewes and his wife Jane Hewes. His brothers are Tucker and Havelock Hewes.
Mr. Hewes attended school at the Church of the Heavenly Rest,the Dalton School, Phillips Andover Academy, and the Riverdale Country School. He attended Boston University and obtained a Bachelors Degree from the SUNY Red Albany program. He was a Herbert Hover fellow at Hunter College and obtained a Masters degree in Urban Planning. As a student he headed up students for Rockefeller in Massachusetts in 1968, as well as the students for Nixon/Agnew in Massachusetts. While in Boston he was the publisher of the Boston Express. While still a grad student in the Hunter Graduate program, Mr. Hewes was elected to the Board of the American Institute of Planners. Mr. Hewes was also elected to represent Graduate students in the University student senate and was elected to serve as vice-chair of that entity. As vice chair of the student senate, he served on several committees of the Cuny Board of Trustees.
Henry also served on the Board of the City Club of New York.
From 1971 to 1975 Hewes was the publisher of the Reston Citizen, and from 1976-1980 he was Real Estate Manager for the New York City of Ports and Terminals. In 1981 Henry Hewes and Jeffery Stern created the economic development consulting firm Stern & Hewes. which has developed and constructed a variety of real estate products which includes developments for low and moderate income housing, including over 2000 housing units. He has also worked with the Hoover Institute, the City University of New York and the United States Conference Board. In New York City he has developed, constructed or reconstructed 37 different structures. These include over 1200 units of housing and commercial centers. Through the European American Trust Corp he was active in the development business in Poland, where his projects include the Metropolitan Complex.
In Ecuador he has worked through the U.S.-Ecuador Development Corp, which is involved in five residential projects that have a total of 3000 residential units and commercial centers. The best known of these centers is the Satellite City of L.A., in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Mr. Hewes is also active in a variety of charitable and polities entities. These include The Dalton School, The City Club of New York, The American Planning Association, The Municipal Planning Association and the MYATC.
In the 1990s Hewes was the publisher of the Washington Chronicle and also a candidate for mayor of New York City in 1989, competing against Rudolph Giuliani. He also ran for United States Senator for the state of New York in 1994 against Patrick Moynihan.
He was director of Pat Robertson`s presidential campaign in the northeast region and director of the presidential campaign of Pat Buchanan in New York State. He was also the Vice-Chairman of the Presidential campaign in New York State for George Bush in 1992.
Hewes was a senior advisor to the New York State Right to Life Party and a prominent anti-abortion activist.
He changed his political allegiance from Republican to Democrat in 2008 because of his opposition to the Iraq war. In the same year he also ran for President of the United States against Hilary Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden in 2008.
Now an anti-abortion Democrat, Mr. Hewes is active in opposing the death penalty, abortion, "broken" civil liberties and advocates home schooling and charter schools.
He is a trustee of the Hewes Foundation.

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