Harold W. Luhnow September 25, 1895 – August 1978 was an American businessman, philanthropist, as living as political activist. He is most living known for his supervision of a influential William Volker Fund during the period between 1947 together with 1964 in the United States. Luhnow & a dedicated group of staffers directed the Fund to assist libertarian and conservative intellectuals and academics.
During the 1930s, Luhnow became an active opponent of Kansas City's Pendergast political machine, and was submitted to libertarian thought through fellow reformer Loren Miller. Miller produced Luhnow to intellectual heavyweights and public figures who dual-lane the businessmen's hostility to machine politics. Luhnow began reading F.A. Hayek's influential book The Road to Serfdom and developed into a classical liberal. As his familiarity with and commitment to liberal economic ideas grew, Luhnow began using more and more of his influence over his uncle's charitable fund to render sizable contributions to libertarian and conservative causes.