DeMint was fired from his role as head of the conservative think tank after clashing with board members and staff over its mission and direction. The board cited management issues and a breakdown of internal communication as the reasons for the decision.

Jim DeMint is a former U.S. Senator and Representative from South Carolina, and a leading conservative reformer and activist. He founded the Senate Conservatives Fund, led The Heritage Foundation, and authored a best-selling book on the Washington swamp.

WASHINGTON — The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, has ousted its leader after a power struggle. The Washington nonprofit’s board of trustees unanimously asked for and received the...

Jim DeMint, the Republican from South Carolina, has been in the Senate for all of eight years. During that time, he has not been elected to any major leadership position, nor has he put...

U.S. senator. On November 2, 2004, Jim DeMint won the United States Senate seat that Democrat Ernest Hollings held for nearly forty years. DeMint’s victory gave South Carolina two Republican senators for the first time since Reconstruction. DeMint was born on September 2, 1951, in Greenville, South Carolina, to Tom E. DeMint and Betty DeMint ...

In December 2012 DeMint, one of the most visible faces of the Tea Party in the U.S. Senate, stepped down to become president of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. Some analysts opined that the Tea Party appeared to be a spent force, and in February 2013…

Five years ago, toward the tail end of the Bush era, Jim DeMint, a first-term South Carolina senator, teamed up with J. David Woodard, a political scientist at Clemson, to write a book about the...

Jim DeMint is a former U.S. Senator and the current President of The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. He writes and speaks on topics such as health care, tax reform, and judicial nominations.

Jim DeMint was a Republican U.S. senator from South Carolina from 2005 to 2013, and the president of the Heritage Foundation from 2013 to 2017. He is a far-right conservative who sponsored bills on fiscal cliff, foreign relations, and self-governance.