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Norquist was raised in suburban Boston. His father, an executive at Polaroid, instilled in him an appreciation for fiscal conservatism, and at age 12 Grover volunteered for Richard M. Nixon’s 1968 presidential election campaign. At Harvard University he honed his political views as a member of the campus libertarian association, and he graduated in 1978 with a degree in economics. Norquist then took a position with the National Taxpayers Union, an organization that advocated for tax relief and smaller government, and he quickly rose to become its executive director. After returning to Harvard to complete an M.B.A. (1981), he was appointed the national executive director of the College Republicans, in the process forging key contacts with other young right-wing activists.
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