Mitch McConnell

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In 1997, McConnell founded the [[James Madison Center for Free Speech]], a Washington, D.C.-based [[legal defense]] organization.<ref>{{cite book |last=Dyche |first=John David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7usMAQAAMAAJ |title=Republican Leader: A Political Biography of Senator Mitch McConnell |publisher=[[Intercollegiate Studies Institute]] |year=2009 |isbn=978-1-935191-59-9 |page=124 |access-date=January 6, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805232152/https://books.google.com/books?id=7usMAQAAMAAJ |archive-date=August 5, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Southworth |first=Ann |url=https://archive.org/details/lawyersofrightpr0000sout |title=Lawyers of the right: professionalizing the conservative coalition |publisher=[[Chicago]]: [[University of Chicago Press]] |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-226-76836-6 |page=[https://archive.org/details/lawyersofrightpr0000sout/page/30 30] |url-access=registration}}</ref> McConnell was inducted as a member of the [[Sons of the American Revolution]] on March 1, 2013.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Long Rifleman Louisville-Thruston Chapter |url=http://www.louthrustonsar.org/March%202013%20Newsletter.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004214246/http://www.louthrustonsar.org/March%202013%20Newsletter.pdf |archive-date=October 4, 2013 |access-date=November 19, 2013 |volume=4 |issue=2}}</ref> McConnell is on the Board of Selectors of [[Jefferson Awards for Public Service]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Board of Selectors |url=https://www.multiplyinggood.org/who-we-are/team/board-of-selectors |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101124055949/http://www.jeffersonawards.org/board |archive-date=November 24, 2010 |access-date=November 19, 2013 |publisher=JeffersonAwards.org}}</ref>

In 2018, the [[OpenSecrets]] website ranked McConnell one of the wealthiest members of the U.S. Senate, with a net worth of more than $25 million.<ref name="net-worth">{{cite web |title=Mitch McConnell - Net Worth - Personal Finances |url=https://www.opensecrets.org/personal-finances/net-worth?cid=N00003389 |access-date=October 28, 2021 |website=OpenSecrets.org |archive-date=April 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210416164926/https://www.opensecrets.org/personal-finances/net-worth?cid=N00003389 |url-status=live }}</ref> His personal wealth was increased after receiving a 2008 personal gift to him and his wife, given by his father-in-law [[James S. C. Chao]] after the death of McConnell's mother-in-law, whose value has been estimated to be $5–25&nbsp;million.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bresnahan |first1=John |date=June 12, 2009 |title=Members' fortunes see steep declines |work=[[Politico]] |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2009/06/members-fortunes-see-steep-declines-023693 |url-status=live |access-date=November 1, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150926133404/http://www.politico.com/story/2009/06/members-fortunes-see-steep-declines-023693 |archive-date=September 26, 2015}}</ref>