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ENTERPRISE Steve Forbes A business leader and chairman and editor-in-chief of Forbes Me- dia, Steve also founded Empower America and is a Freedom Works board member. Born Malcom Stevenson Forbes Jr. in Morristown, New Jersey, Steve Forbes grew up immersed in the worlds of pub- lishing and politics. His grandfather, B.C. Forbes, was a journalist who founded Forbes Magazine. His father, Malcom Forbes, served as a state senator and had two unsuccessful bids for the New Jersey governorship in 1953 and 1957. Forbes has penned several books, including Why Free Markets Are Moral and Big Government Isn’t and How Capitalism Will Save Us. Steve Forbes was a Republican candidate in the 1996 and 2000 presidential primaries. Watch Steve Forbes get inducted NJ STAGE - ISSUE 48 INDEX NEXT ARTICLE 31