Leaders across the country and world honored conservative icon Ed Feulner, who died Friday at age 83. Feulner was The Heritage Foundation’s founder and longest-serving president. 

Political figures praised Feulner’s decades-long influence on the conservative movement. 

Newt Gingrich, a former House speaker who often collaborated with Feulner, hailed his transformational leadership of Heritage and the contributions he made to the conservative movement.

“Ed Feulner was a giant helping save and then reshape America. His leadership in the 1970s made Heritage the leading conservative think tank in the country,” Gingrich said. “His close ties to candidate Ronald Reagan and his policy coordinator, Ed Meese, changed history through the publication of ‘Mandate for Change,’ possibly the single most influential policy book in the modern era.”

Ed Feulner was a giant helping save and then reshape America. His leadership in the 1970s made Heritage the leading conservative think tank in the country. His close ties to candidate Ronald Reagan and his policy coordinator, Ed Meese, changed history through the publication of…

“All of us who push back against the insidious creep of statism, not to mention those among us who cling atavistically to guns and to God, are in Ed Feulner’s debt,” wrote Neal B. Freeman, a businessman and journalist who was a director of National Review for 38 years.

On Sunday, The Wall Street Journal editorial board honored Feulner’s life and achievements.  

“Ed Feulner’s motto was ‘onward, always,’ reflecting his optimism about the durability of America’s founding ideals,” the Journal wrote.

Former Vice President Mike Pence, who served with Feulner on the board of Advancing American........

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