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Henry Hewes was born in 1946 at Columbia Presbyterian hospital in New York City. Mr. Hewes is the son of the late Saturday Review & Literature Drama critic Henry Hewes and his wife Jane Hewes. His brothers are Tucker and Havelock Hewes.

Henry Hewes attended school at the Church of the Heavenly Rest,the Dalton School, Phillips Andover Academy, and the Riverdale Country School. He attended Boston University and obtained a Bachelors Degree from the SUNY Red Albany program. He was a Herbert Hover fellow at Hunter College and obtained a Masters degree in Urban Planning. As a student he headed up students for Rockefeller in Massachusetts in 1968, as well as the students for Nixon /Agnew in Massachusetts. While in Boston he was the publisher of the Boston Express. While still a grad student in the Hunter Graduate program, Mr. Hewes was elected to the Board of the American Institute of Planners. Mr. Hewes was also  elected to represent Graduate students in the University student senate and was elected to serve as vice-chair of that entity. As vice chair of the student senate, he served on several committees of the Cuny Board of Trustees.

Henry also served on the Board of the City Club of New York.

From 1971-1975,Mr. Hews was the publisher of the Reston Citizen,and from 1976-1980, he was Real Estate Manager for the New York City of Ports and Terminals. In 1981 Henry Hewes and Jeffery Stern created the Economic Development Consulting firm Stern & Hewes. With this entity Henry has developed and constructed a variety of real estate products., which includes developments for low and moderate income housing, which includes over 2000 housing units. Henry has also worked with the Hoover Institute, the city University of New York and the United States Conference Board. In New York City alone he has developed, constructed or reconstructed 37 different structures. These include over 1200 units of housing and commercial centers. Through the European American Trust Corp, he was active in the development business in Poland, where his projects include the highly acclaimed Metropolitan Complex.

In Ecuador he has worked through the U.S.-Ecuador Development Corp, which is involved in five residential projects that have a total of 3000 residential units and commercial centers. The best known of these centers is the Satilite City of L.A., in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

Outside of his business and technology affairs, Mr. Hewes is also active in a variety of charitable and polities entities locally and on the national level.

Among the many civic organizations on which Mr. Hewes has served are: The Dalton School, The City Club of New York, The American Planning Association, The Municipal Planning Association and the MYATC.

Politically in the 1990`s ,Mr. Hewes was the publisher of the Washington Chronicle as well as a candidate for Mayor in New York City in 1989, in a race against Rudolph Giuliani. Mr. Hewes also ran for United States Senator for the state of New York in 1994 in a race against Patrick Moynihan.

Mr. Hewes also has served as Director of Pat Robertson`s Presidential campaign in the North East region, and Director of the Presidential campaign of Pat Buchanan in New York State. He was also the Vice- Chairman of the Presidential campaign in New York State for George Bush in 1992.

Mr. Hewes was a senior advisor to the Right to Life party and a prominent Pro -life activist.

Mr. Hewes also changed his political classification from republican to democrat in 2008, based on his opposition to the Iraq war. In that same year Mr. Hewes also ran for President of the United States against Hilary Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden in 2008.

Now a Pro-life Democrat, Mr.Hewes maintains being active in efforts to oppose the death penalty, abortion, broken civil liberties and advocates home schooling & charter schools.

Mr. Hewes is also a trustee of the Hewes Foundation.

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