John Avlon Congress CNN, Net Worth, Wife, Age, Political Affiliation and Personal Life

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John Avlon Biography and Wikipedia

John Avlon is an American journalist and political commentator who ran for U.S. House representative of New York’s 1st congressional district under the Democratic Party but lost to the Republican incumbent Nick LaLota in the district’s 2024 general election. Previously, he served as a senior political analyst for CNN News based in New York.

John Avlon Education

Avlon finished his high school studies at a co-educational independent preparatory school known as Milton Academy in Milton, Massachusetts. He then graduated with a Bachelor’s degree from Yale University and earned an MBA from Columbia University.

John Avlon Age

How old is John? Avlon is 51 years old as of 2025. He was born John Phillips Avlon on January 19, 1973, in Massachusetts, United States. His birthday is celebrated on 19th January every year. His zodiac birth sign is Capricorn. READ: Jessica Holmes

John Avlon Nationality and Ethnicity

Avlon is an American national by birth. He was born and brought up in the suburbs of Massachusetts, United States. He is of white-Greek ethnicity/descent/ancestry.

John Avlon Height

How tall is Avlon? He stands at a height of 5 feet 8 inches (1.72 m). He also maintains an average body weight of around 73 kilograms. However, information regarding his other body measurements is still under review. John’s hair color is black and his eyes are brown.

John Avlon Parents

Avlon was born as the eldest son of a lawyer named Dianne Alexander (mother) and a professional real estate executive named John Jeffrey Avlon (father). His father also owned various companies in Charleston, South Carolina and New York City. John’s paternal grandparents were immigrants from Greece. Thus, he has Greek heritage and ancestry. Details about his siblings are still under review.

John Avlon Wife | Margaret Hoover

Is John Married? Avlon is currently married to his wife, Margaret Hoover. The couple met and tied the knot back in early 2012. A few months later, they were blessed with one son named Jack born in 2013. In 2015, John and his wife welcomed their second child, a daughter named Toula Lou. READ: Zhané Caldwell

Margaret is also a fellow CNN contributor and a host on PBS’s reboot named Firing Line. She is also the great-granddaughter of the 31st US President, Herbert Hoover. Hoover is also recognized for authoring her own book called Individualism and worked for George W, Bush in 2004 as an associate director.

John Avlon Baby

Avlon and his wife, Margaret share two wonderful children. They include; one son named Jack and one daughter named Toula Lou. Lou is John’s last-born baby.

John Avlon CNN News | Author

John is a former Senior Political Analyst for CNN News. He first began his career as the youngest speechwriter for major Rudolph Giuliani. Later, he was promoted to chief speechwriter and deputy director of policy. Avlon then went on to work as a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for three years before he became a board member of the Citizens Union of New York City.

In 2008, he joined The Daily Beast as a managing director just one month after it was formed. In 22013, he became the editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast. During his leadership at the website, it gained double the traffic to 1.1 million viewers a day. It even won over seventeen awards for its journalistic excellence.

John announced his departure from The Daily Beast back in 2018 and joined CNN as a Senior Political Analyst. Additionally, John made various appearances on The Daily Show, MSNBC, TReal Time, and The Late Show With Stephen Colbert as a political pundit.

John Avlon Political Affiliation | Party

On February 21, 2024, John declared his intention to run against incumbent Republican U.S. House Representative Nick LaLota in New York’s 1st Congressional District. He secured a primary victory on June 25, defeating Nancy Goroff, but ultimately lost to Representative LaLota in the general election on November 5.

John Avlon Net Worth

John is an American journalist and political commentator with an estimated net worth of $4 million. READ: Bridget Rooney

John Avlon Books | New Book

  • Lincoln and the Fight for Peace (2022)
  • Washington’s Farewell: The Founding Father’s Warning to Future Generations
  • Independent nation (2005)
  • Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America

John Avlon Quotes

  • The American people are smart. They’ve gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger.
  • A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum – the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They’re the people who always try to divide rather than unite us.
  • First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their independence, the more the parties will have to compete for their votes using reason rather than hateful appeals.
  • One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.
  • Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.
  • If you only take offense when the president of your party is compared to Hitler, then you’re part of the problem