Frank Fahrenkopf, Jr. (born 1939), is a U.S. lawyer and was chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1983 to 1989. Fahrenkopf currently is president and CEO of the American Gaming Association (AGA), the national trade association for the commercial casino industry. He is also co-chairman of the Commission on Presidential Debates, which conducts the general election presidential and vice presidential debates in presidential election years.

Early life and education[link]

Fahrenkopf was born in Brooklyn, New York, on August 28, 1939.^[1]

In 1962 he graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno, where he was a member of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. In 1965 he graduated from the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley.

Career[link]

Early legal work[link]

After graduating from law school, Fahrenkopf was hired as an associate by the Reno law firm of Breen and Young. In 1967, he left that firm to become a partner in Sanford, Sanford, Fahrenkopf, and Mousel, another Reno law firm, and also taught criminal law at the University of Nevada. He remained a partner in the firm until 1975, when he founded Fahrenkopf, Mortimer, Sourwine, Mousel and Sloane. The new firm’s clients included hotels, casinos, liquor vendors, and construction companies. Also in the 1970s, Fahrenkopf was retained by the Washington law firm of Hogan & Hartson. ^[1]

Politics prior to the RNC[link]

In 1965, just out of law school, Fahrenkopf met all the members of the Nevada Young Republicans Club; a week later, Fahrenkopf was elected chairman of the club. Within two years the club had more than 500 members. In 1972, Fahrenkopf was the Northern Nevada co-chairman of President Richard Nixon’s reelection campaign. He was general counsel to the Nevada Republican Committee from 1972 to 1975 and its chairman from 1975 to 1983.^[1]

At the national level, Fahrenkopf became a member of the Republican National Committee in 1975. He was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1972, 1976, and 1980. From 1977 to 1979 he was a member of the Republican National Committee’s executive committee. From 1981 to 1983, he was the national chairman of the Republican State Chairman’s Association.^[1]

RNC[link]

In January 1983, Fahrenkopf was elected chairman of the Republican National Committee. In 1983, he was a founder of the National Endowment for Democracy, where he served as vice chairman and a board member from 1983 to 1993. In 1984, he founded the International Republican Institute, on which he continues to serve as a board member. In 1986 he co-founded the Commission on Presidential Debates with Democratic National Committee chairman Paul G. Kirk.

Fahrenkopf served for many years as chairman of the Pacific Democrat Union and vice chairman of the International Democrat Union, a worldwide association of conservative political parties from the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Japan, Australia and twenty other nations.

In 1985, Fahrenkopf was again hired by the firm Hogan & Hartson, as a "special partner", where we was paid at least $100,000 a year. While RNC head, he also worked for two Nevada law firms, and was a director of First Republic Bank Corporation of California.^[1]

Fahrenkopf was the longest-serving chairman of the RNC in the 20th century and the second-longest in the history of the Republican Party, leaving in 1989.^[1]

After RNC[link]

In 1989, Fahrenkopf became a full partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Hogan & Hartson, where he chaired the International Trade Practice Group. On June 1, 1995, he became the American Gaming Association's first chief executive. He is a member of the board of directors of the International Republican Institute.^[2]

Fahrenkopf sits on the Council on American Politics, bringing together leaders from across the nation to address issues facing the growth and enrichment of The Graduate School of Political Management at The George Washington University.^[3]

He sits on the executive council of the Atlantic Bridge.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Staff Bio at American Gaming Association website
• The Council on American Politics at GW's Graduate School of Political Management

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Joseph Terrence Lanni (March 14, 1943 – July 14, 2011)^[1] was the former Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of MGM Mirage, one of the world's leading hotel and gaming companies headquartered in Paradise, Nevada. He also served as Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors.

He joined MGM Grand, Inc. on June 1, 1995, as President & Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors. In July 1995 he was named Chairman and CEO. In 2000, he oversaw the acquisition of Mirage Resorts by MGM Grand, Inc., which created MGM Mirage.^[2]

He was a senior executive of Caesars World, Inc. for 18 years, serving as President and Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of that company from April 1981 to February 1995. Lanni joined Caesars World in January 1977 as Chief Financial Officer, was named Senior Vice President in April 1978, and elected Executive Vice President in December 1979. Prior to joining Caesars, he was Treasurer of Republic Corporation, a New York Stock Exchange-listed conglomerate based in California.

Education[link]

He graduated from the University of Southern California with a B.S. degree in business and in 1992 he received the "Alumnus of the Year Award" from USC Marshall School of Business.^[3]

Other[link]

He was appointed by the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives in 1997 to serve on the nine-member National Gambling Impact Study Commission. In October 2000 he was inducted into the Gaming Hall of Fame, and in January 2001 was the recipient of Casino Journal's 2001 Lifetime Achievement Award.

Lanni served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club; the Board of Trustees of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation; Santa Clara University, and the Board of Overseers of the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. Lanni also served as Chair of the American Gaming Association.

Death[link]

Lanni died July 14, 2011, aged 68, from cancer. He was survived by his wife Debbie and their two sons.^[2]

Questions about MBA[link]

On November 15, 2008, Lanni announced his resignation as CEO of MGM Mirage, effective November 30, as doubts emerged about the MBA he claimed to have received from USC.^[4] In the announcement Lanni stated: "I must stress that this issue has nothing to do with my decision" to retire.^[5] Mr Lanni’s corporate profile on the MGM Mirage web site had, until the week of his resignation, stated that he had received an MBA from the university.^[4]

Officials at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business—responding to an inquiry from the Wall Street Journal -- told the company it had no record that Lanni had earned a master's degree in business administration from the school. The university contacted MGM Mirage on November 12, 2008 following the Journal's inquiries about a recent discovery by Barry Minkow, a private fraud investigator in San Diego, of a discrepancy between Lanni's corporate biography and a database of college degrees accessible to private investigators. As recently as late November 13, 2008 company materials said Lanni had earned the MBA degree. The claim has lingered in his biography for years. In 1982, when Lanni was president of casino operator Caesars World Inc., the company issued a release stating he received "an MBA in finance from USC in 1967." But James Grant, a USC spokesman disagrees. "No [MBA] degree was conferred", he said, adding the school had completed a rigorous search of its records in response to the Journal's queries. MGM Mirage's biography also said Lanni earned a bachelor of arts degree in speech from USC. According to Mr. Grant, that was also inaccurate though he confirmed that Lanni did earn one degree from USC, a 1965 bachelor of science degree in business. Lanni said he took a series of classes toward an MBA, but didn't finish because he went to work instead. But he said he was awarded an honorary MBA from USC in 1992 when he was named Alumnus of the Year by the business school. "I understood I was given an honorary degree," he said. At USC, Mr. Grant said the university's list of honorary degrees didn't include Lanni either.

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