John Von Kannon being awarded the Ashbrook Award at CPAC on February 9, 2012.
The John M. Ashbrook Award is bestowed annually to recognize an individual who upholds the ideals of limited constitutional government championed by John M. Ashbrook, the late Ohio congressman and co-founder of the American Conservative Union.
The Ashbrook Center presented the 2012 Ashbrook Award to John Von Kannon, a key figure in the growth of The Heritage Foundation for more than three decades, at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington D.C.
Von Kannon, vice president and senior counselor at the leading Washington think tank,
accepted the Ashbrook Award during the Presidential Banquet at the Marriott Warden Park Hotel Ballroom, as more than 10,000 conservatives gathered for CPAC.
Past Ashbrook Award Recipients:
2012 – John Von Kannon
2011 – John Boehner
2010 – Roy Innis
2009 – Thomas S. Winter
2008 – Lee Edwards
2007 – William A. Rusher
2006 – Paul M. Weyrich
2005 – Henry J. Hyde
2004 – J. Kenneth Blackwell
2003 – Tom Delay
2002 – M. Stanton Evans
2001 – John Ashcroft
2000 – Herbert Romerstein
1999 – Philip M. Crane
1998 – Charlton Heston
1997 – Frank Shakespeare
1996 – Robert H. Krieble
1995 – Malcolm Wallop
1994 – Jesse Helms
1993 – Dan Quayle
1992 – Tom Van Meter
1991 – Jeanne Kirkpatrick
1990 – Fred A. Lennon
1989 – Patrick J. Buchanan
1988 – F. Clifton White
1987 – Edwin Meese III
1986 – Ronald Reagan
