Charles L. Heatherly
Heatherly speaking at the Heritage Foundation, 1990
15th Administrator of the Small Business Administration (Acting)
Former
In office
March 31, 1986 – March 23, 1987
PresidentRonald Reagan
Preceded byJames C. Sanders
Succeeded byJames Abdnor
Director of the President's Commission on White House Fellowships
Former
Assumed office
April 1, 1984[1]
PresidentRonald Reagan
Preceded byJames C. Roberts
Succeeded byLinda L. Tarr
Deputy Under Secretary for Management in the U.S. Department of Education
Former
Assumed office
September 3, 1982[2]
PresidentRonald Reagan
Preceded byKent Lloyd
Succeeded byLinda M. Combs[3]
Personal details
Born(1942-06-06)June 6, 1942
Elizabethton, Tennessee, U.S.[4]
Political partyRepublican
Signature
NicknameAngel of Death[5]

Charles L. Heatherly (born June 6, 1942) is an American bureaucrat who was the acting administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) from 1986 to 1987 following the resignation of James C. Sanders.[6]

Early life and career

Education and early political involvement

Heatherly at Apache Hall, University of Arizona, 1962

Heatherly attended the University of Arizona at which time he became involved in Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential campaign. After graduating, Heatherly became an organizer for the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. In 1975 Heatherly received a master's degree from Claremont Graduate School and University Center.[7]

Heritage Foundation

In 1981, Heatherly helped author and edit the Heritage Foundation publication entitled Mandate for Leadership[8] in which Heatherly offers several policy recommendations intended to decrease the size and scope of the federal government. Subsequent versions of the Mandate have been published since then.

Small Business Administration

Heatherly's tenure was characterized by his efforts in attempting to carry out the Reagan Administration's plan[9] to merge the independent SBA into the U.S. Department of Commerce. The plan was ultimately dropped due to a lack of support from Congress[10] and intense criticism from the small business community. Heatherly conceded that the decision to merge the SBA with the Department of Commerce had "nothing to do with budget savings" and soon shifted his efforts to examining the effectiveness of the SBA's loan guarantee and educational programs.[11]

Criticism

Heatherly's ascension to the position of SBA administrator drew bipartisan ire from Senators Lowell P. Weicker Jr. (R-CT) and Dale L. Bumpers (D-AR) who took issue with the fact that Heatherly's appointment was never considered by the Senate Small Business Committee.[12]

The same Senator Weicker sent a letter to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) requesting that they examine a pamphlet published by the SBA at Heatherly's direction, entitled The Future of SBA. While the GAO determined that the pamphlet did not violate the law, the office stated that they had "serious difficulties" with the SBA's distribution of its accompanying "suggested editorials" supporting the Reagan Administration's reorganization plan. The GAO stated that the suggested editorials were "misleading as to their origin and reasonably constitute[d] 'propaganda...'"[13]

Additionally, following pressure from small business delegates to the 1986 White House Conference on Small Business, President Ronald Reagan announced that Heatherly would be replaced as acting head of the SBA.[14]

Post-SBA career

Following his ouster from the SBA, Heatherly returned to the Heritage Foundation and was the organization's Vice President for Academic Relations.[15]

Published works

Books

  • Heritage Foundation (1981). Heatherly, Charles (ed.). Mandate for Leadership I. Washington, D.C.: Heritage Foundation. ISBN 0891950281.
  • Heritage Foundation (1989). Heatherly, Charles; Pines, Burt (eds.). Mandate for Leadership III: Policy Strategies for the 1990s. Washington, D.C.: Heritage Foundation. ISBN 089195046X.
  • Lundberg, Kevin (September 11, 2020). Heatherly, Charles (ed.). UNMASKED2020: Colorado's Radical Left Turn and a Warning to America. Republican Study Committee of Colorado. ISBN 0578748010.

References

  1. ↑ "Federal File:". Education Week. Retrieved 18 December 2023.
  2. ↑ "Nomination of Charles L. Heatherly To Be a Deputy Under Secretary of Education". The American Presidency Project. Retrieved 18 December 2023.
  3. ↑ "Nominations, September 5, 1984". Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum. Retrieved 18 December 2023.
  4. ↑ "Charles Heatherly". Conservative Book Club. Retrieved 29 March 2023.
  5. ↑ Bean, Jonathan (2001). "Big Government and Affirmative Action: The Scandalous History of the Small Business Administration" (PDF). American Politics. 36: 137. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
  6. ↑ TIME USA, LLC (1986, April 28). Government: Changing Small to Not At All. TIME. Retrieved September 14, 2023, from https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,961270,00.html
  7. ↑ Havemann, Judith (April 21, 1986). "PLAYERS". Washington Post. Retrieved 29 March 2023.
  8. ↑ Heatherly, Charles L. (1981). Mandate for Leadership: Policy Management in a Conservative Administration. Heritage Foundation. OSTI 6876978. Retrieved 29 March 2023.
  9. ↑ Hoffman, David (December 6, 1984). "Reagan Seeks to Cut Pay, Abolish SBA, Curb Benefits". Washington Post. Retrieved 29 March 2023.
  10. ↑ "SBA Lives but Must Refocus, Its Chief Says". Los Angeles Times. 14 November 1986.
  11. ↑ Nash, Nathaniel C. (28 August 1986). "Campaign to Kill S.b.a. Is Scrapped". The New York Times.
  12. ↑ Havemann, Judith (April 21, 1986). "PLAYERS". Washington Post. Retrieved 29 March 2023.
  13. ↑ "B-223098, B-223098.2 October 10, 1986". U.S. Government Accountability Office. Retrieved 29 March 2023.
  14. ↑ "Heatherly Ouster Cheers Small-Business Delegates". Chicago Tribune.
  15. ↑ "Charles Heatherly". C-Span. Retrieved 29 March 2023.
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