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HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 37 Offered January 23, 2020 Commending Thomas Sowell. ---------- Patrons-- Freitas, Batten and Cole, M.L. ----------

WHEREAS, Thomas Sowell, the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University, has made decades of contributions to scholarship on economics, history, social policy, and ethnicity; and

WHEREAS, a native of North Carolina, Thomas Sowell served his country during the Korean War as a member of the United States Marine Corps; after his honorable discharge, he attended Howard University and subsequently earned degrees from Harvard University, Columbia University, and the University of Chicago; and

WHEREAS, throughout his career in education, Thomas Sowell has taught economics at Cornell University, Amherst College, the University of California at Los Angeles, Brandeis University, and Rutgers University, becoming known as a leading representative of the Chicago school of economics; and

WHEREAS, Thomas Sowell has held positions at several research centers, including project director at the Urban Institute, fellow for the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, and adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute; and

WHEREAS, Thomas Sowell is an esteemed author who has published dozens of books on a range of topics; his works have appeared in several scholarly journals and his nationally syndicated column has appeared in more than 150 newspapers throughout the country; and

WHEREAS, Thomas Sowell has received many awards and accolades, including the 2002 National Humanities Medal from President George W. Bush and the 2003 Bradley Prize for Intellectual Achievement from the Bradley Foundation; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED by the House of Delegates, That Thomas Sowell hereby be commended for his legacy of contributions to the study of economics, history, social policy, and ethnicity; and, be it

RESOLVED FURTHER, That the Clerk of the House of Delegates prepare a copy of this resolution for presentation to Thomas Sowell as an expression of the House of Delegates’ admiration for his extensive body of work and numerous achievements.