Randal Teague

Randal Cornell Teague is the former chief of staff and legislative counsel to U.S. Representative Jack K. Kemp (R-NY) and chairman of the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid of the U.S. Agency for International Development. Teague, who is currently a partner at the law firm of Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP in Washington, D.C., also serves as president of the Board of Trustees and as a director of EARTH University in Costa Rica and as chairman of The Fund for American Studies.

Education

Teague received his B.A. from American University in 1967 where he was Pi Sigma Alpha. He received his J.D.and LL.M.with highest honors in 1971 and 1972 respectively from George Washington University.

Career

He served as a clerk to the Committee on Public Works and as executive director of Young Americans for Freedom. Teague worked from 1971 to 1973 at the Office of Economic Opportunity in the Executive Office of the President of the United States. From 1973-1979 he served as chief of staff and legislative counsel to then U.S. Representative Jack Kemp of New York. From 1979 to 1981, Teague served as division counsel for Cabot Corporation. From 1987 to 1991 during the Presidents Ronald Reagan and G.H.W. Bush administrations, he served as chairman of the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid of the U.S. Agency for International Development, for which he received its Superior Honor Award.

Teague is currently a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP, a predominantly Ohio law firm with offices also in Washington D.C., Houston and Pittsburgh. His practice focuses on corporate and tax law, international trade and development, and legislative and administrative government relations. Teague is admitted to practice before 13 state and federal courts, including the bars of the District of Columbia, Florida and Massachusetts, the Supreme Court of the United States, four federal circuit courts and the United States Court of International Trade.

National and International Organizations

Teague was president of the American Council of Young Political Leaders (ACYPL) from 1981 to 1983 and a director from 1981 to 1994. He was founder and president of the International Exchange Council from 1981 to 2006, which fostered exchanges involving ACYPL alumni.

Teague serves also as president of the Board of Trustees and as a director of EARTH University in Costa Rica as well as secretary of the EARTH University Foundation in the United States. Teague presently serves as chairman and CEO of the Board of Trustees of The Fund for American Studies (TFAS) in Washington, D.C. At TFAS, he oversaw the formations of the American Institute on Political and Economic Systems at Charles University in Prague; the International Institute for Political and Economic Studies on Crete in Greece; the Asian Institute for Political Economy in Hong Kong; and the Institute for Leadership in the Americas in Santiago, Chile.

Kemp-Roth Legislation and Reagan Tax Cuts

In 1974, Rep. Kemp and Teague devised tax legislation aimed at getting the national economy out of its doldrums. The earliest bills consisted of proposed tax changes to encourage savings and investment and eventually became what is now known as the Kemp-Roth personal income tax cut. This bill became basis for the Reagan tax cut law in 1981.

Awards

He has been conferred LL.D. and Doctor of Humanities honorary degrees from Allen University and EARTH University, respectively. He was awarded the George Washington Honor Medal of the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge in 1978.

Publications

• Randal C. Teague, Frederick P. Waite and M. Sean Purcell, “Law Firms Going Global: International Legal Challenges in the Nation’s Capital,” Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, 2005.
• Randal C. Teague, Team Leader, A Changing University for a Changing World, A Report of the International Review Committee, Michigan State University, 1995.
• Editor, Responding to Change: Private Voluntarism and International Development, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), 1990.
• Editor, The Effectiveness of Private Voluntary Organizations, USAID, 1988.