What is Amy Ridenour?
[[Image:Amy Ridenour.jpg|thumb|220px|right|Amy Ridenour shown testifying before a hearing of the [[Senate Indian Affairs Committee]] on June 22, 2005, in regards to her involvement in the [[Jack Abramoff]] scandal.]] '''Amy Moritz Ridenour''' (November 9, 1959 – March 31, 2017) was an American political activist. She served as president of the [[National Center for Public Policy Research]], a [[Washington, D.C.]] conservative think tank. Ridenour held this post since the organization's founding in 1982 until her death in 2017. She was born in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]]. Ridenour died of complications from [[breast cancer]] in [[Burnie, Maryland|Burnie]], [[Maryland]], aged 57.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/04/us/amy-moritz-ridenour-dead-led-national-center-for-public-policy-research.html|title=Amy Moritz Ridenour, Conservative Think Tank Founder, Dies at 57|date=April 4, 2017|access-date=April 12, 2017|author=Sam Roberts}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== *[http://www.nationalcenter.org/Staffbios.html NCPPR staff bio] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041215032432/http://www.nationalcenter.org/Staffbios.html |date=2004-12-15 }} *[http://www.conservativeblog.org/ Ridenour's blog] *[http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amy_Moritz_Ridenour Profile] at [[SourceWatch]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Ridenour, Amy}} [[Category:1959 births]] [[Category:2017 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from breast cancer]] [[Category:Cancer deaths in Maryland]] [[Category:American political activists]] [[Category:Politicians from Pittsburgh]] [[Category:Republican Party (United States) politicians]] {{US-bio-stub}}