Tom Bevan (publisher)

For the British writer of boys' adventure stories, see Tom Bevan (writer).

Thomas C. Bevan is an American writer and media executive who is co-founder and publisher of RealClearPolitics.

Bevan in 2008

Bevan attended Princeton University, playing at defensive back for Princeton Tigers football and graduating with a bachelor's degree in history in 1991.^[1] His Princeton senior thesis was A Deadly Society: Confederate Soldiers at Point Lookout Prison, July 1863–June 1865.^[2]

After graduating from Princeton, he worked as an advertising account executive in Seattle, Chicago, and Miami with Leo Burnett and Crispin Porter + Bogusky.^[3][4] In 1989 he met John McIntyre; the two founded RealClearPolitics in 2000.^[5][4][6] In 2012 he co-authored, with Carl M. Cannon, The RealClearPolitics Political Download: Election 2012: The Battle Begins from Crown Publishing Group and, in 2018, was named number 23 on the Princeton Alumni Weekly's list of the 25 most influential alumni of Princeton University.^[7][8] As of 2021, Bevan is publisher of RealClearPolitics and also hosts a weekly radio show on WLS-AM.^[9][10]