Early Life and Conservative Activism
Born in Racine, Wisconsin to Virginia M. (née Wickstrom) and Ignatius A. Weyrich, Paul Weyrich became involved in politics while a student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He was active in the Racine County Young Republicans from 1961 to 1963 and in Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential campaign. He spent his early career in journalism as political reporter for the Milwaukee Sentinel newspaper, as political reporter and weekend anchor for WISN-TV (Milwaukee) and in radio, as a reporter for WAXO-FM (Kenosha), WLIP-AM and as news director of KQXI (Denver).
In 1966, he became press secretary to Republican U.S. Senator Gordon L. Allott of Colorado. While serving in this capacity, he met Jack Wilson, an aide of Joseph Coors, patriarch of the Coors brewing family. Frustrated with the state of public policy research, they founded Analysis and Research Inc., in 1971, but this organization failed to gain traction.
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