Larry Elder

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Biography

Radio and television personality, political commentator

  • Primary profession
  • Producer·writer·actor
  • Country
  • United States
  • Nationality
  • American
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 27 April 1952
  • Place of birth
  • Los Angeles
  • Education
  • University of Michigan·University of Michigan Law School·Brown University
  • Member of
  • Republican Party

Movies

TV

Books

Trivia

Calls himself the "Sage from South Central" because he grew up in South Central Los Angeles.

Coined the phrase "victicrat" which is someone who lives by a theology of victimization, who blames all ills, problems, concerns, and unhappiness on others.

Attorney and radio talk show host based in Southern California.

Writes a weekly column for Townhall.com

His mother, Viola Elder (1924-2006), became a star, appearing on his nationally-syndicated talk show. He lovingly referred to her as the "Chief Justice", as he is, among many things, a lawyer who graduated from the University of Michigan Law School.

Attended Washington Preparatory High School and later graduated from Crenshaw High School.

Received his Bachelors degree in political science from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

Received his Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Radio at 6270 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on his 63rd birthday [April 27, 2015].

Quotes

“A goal without a plan is just a wish. ”,The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.

Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.

Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.

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