Leonard P. Liggio, Distinguished Member of the Philadelphia Society

The 45th annual meeting of The Philadelphia Society was held in New Orleans, March 27-29, 2009. The board of trustees elected Professor Leonard P. Liggio, Executive Vice-President of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation as a Distinguished Member. There are five other living Distinguished Members. The most recent to pass away was Francis A. O’Connell, Esq. who was long a member of the board of the Institute for Humane Studies and had been the Executive Director of the John M. Olin Foundation. Other late Distinguished Members included F. A. Hayek, Milton Friedman and W. H. Hutt.

The Philadelphia Society was founded in 1964, among academics who had been students in the Intercollegiate Society of Individualists (later changed to Intercollegiate Studies Institute) which was founded in 1953 by Frank Chodorov. F. A. Hayek, Milton Friedman and Richard Weaver at the University of Chicago.

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