Alma Jean Parr: Truth About Thomas Sowell's ex-wife

Posted by Arica Deslauriers on Saturday, May 18, 2024

Alma Jean Parr is Ex-the wife of Thomas Sowell. Alma Jean Parr’s ex-husband Sowell is an American author, economist, political commentator, and Hoover Institution senior fellow at Stanford University.

Sowell has taught at several universities, including Cornell University, Amherst College, the University of California, Los Angeles, and Stanford University. He’s also worked for think tanks like the Urban Institute. He has worked at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution as the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy since 1980.

How did Thomas Sowell and his ex-wife Alma Jean Parr meet?

How did the two former love birds meet and started their relationship? There is no information that gives an account of the situation that brought the two together. Sowell has not made lots of any known public utterances concerning her ex-wife and how they meet.

However, the couple got married in 1964. They married in a beautiful ceremony in the presence of their friends, family, and loved ones. The marriage didn’t last forever, the couple called their marriage a quit in 1975. The reason behind the divorce has also not been made public or any form of settlement. Alma Jean Parr was the first woman Sowell tied the knot with. They were married for 11 years before calling it a quit. They did not have any known children.

After their divorce, not much has been heard from Alma Jean Parr, She went out of the limelight to live a quiet life. Her ex-husband on the other hand Mary Ash in 1981. Sowell has two children- They are John and Lorraine.

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Alma Jean Parr’s ex-husband Thomas Sowell

Alma Jean Parr’s ex-husband, Sowell grew up in Harlem, New York, after being born in poverty in North Carolina. Due to financial difficulties and deteriorating family circumstances, he dropped out of Stuyvesant High School and joined the Marine Corps during the Korean War.

Sowell returned to the United States and took night classes at Howard University before enrolling at Harvard University, where he earned a magna cum laude degree in 1958. In 1959, he received a master’s degree in economics from Columbia University, and in 1968, he received a doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago. Sowell is the author of more than 45 books and has been a syndicated columnist in more than 150 newspapers.

Sowell argues that systemic racism is an untested, questionable hypothesis that is a piece of propaganda pushed on the American people. Sowell has said that “it really has no meaning that can be specified and tested in the way that one tests hypotheses” and “it’s one of many words that I don’t think even the people who use it have any clear idea what they’re saying”.

He has argued that it is a propaganda tactic akin to those used by Joseph Goebbels because it comes with an attitude that it must be “repeated long enough and loud enough” until it is believed and people “cave in” to it.

Sowell’s work has been praised by classical liberals, libertarians, and conservatives from various disciplines. Among these, he has been praised for his originality, great depth and breadth, clarity of expression, and research thoroughness. Economists Steven Plaut, Steve H. Hanke, James M. Buchanan, and others have praised Sowell’s writings.

In a 2015 column, Steve Forbes stated that “It is a travesty that economist Thomas Sowell has not received the Nobel Prize. No one alive has written as many insightful, well-researched books.” Alma Jean Parr’s ex-husband Thomas Sowell is 92 years old as of 2022.

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