M. Stanton Evans, Who Helped Shape Conservative Movement, Is Dead at 80

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M. Stanton Evans, Who Helped Shape Conservative Movement, Is Dead at 80

By ADAM CLYMER MARCH 3, 2015

M. Stanton Evans, an early leader of the conservative movement in American politics and an author of its central manifesto, the Sharon Statement, died on Tuesday at a nursing home in Leesburg, Va. He was 80. ... A longtime friend, Patrick S. Korten, said the cause was pancreatic cancer.

Mr. Evans was the editor of The Indianapolis News, the chairman of the American Conservative Union, a radio and television commentator, a journalism teacher and the author of a raft of books, including a defense of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, Republican of Wisconsin, in his anti-communist crusade.

Medford Stanton Evans was born in Kingsville, Tex., on July 20, 1934. He grew up in Oak Ridge, Tenn., where his father worked in security for the Manhattan Project, and in Mount Rainier, Md., where his father had a similar role with the Atomic Energy Commission. Mr. Evans graduated from Yale in 1955 and worked for the conservative magazines National Review, founded that year by Mr. Buckley, and Human Events before going to Indianapolis.

Mr. Evans, who lived in Hamilton, Va., about 50 miles west of Washington, had no immediate family survivors. He married Sue Ellen Moore in 1962. They divorced in 1974.

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1. RIP and

good riddance. May we never the the likes of this misled individual darken to surface of the planet again.