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Glenn Kimber

American writer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ5568929 ↗
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Glenn Kimber was an American author and educator. He founded Kimber Academy, a network of private schools, and is a prominent figure among U.S. homeschooling families.

Kimber has testified before a number of legislative committees in several states pertaining to Constitutional and educational issues. He has also been a guest on a number of radio and television talk shows.

Upon returning from Vietnam, Kimber continued his university studies, graduating with a bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University. He then joined with W. Cleon Skousen in establishing an educational foundation called the Freemen Institute, which was organized for the purpose of teaching American History and Constitutional studies. During the next number of years, Kimber presented patriotic seminars and conferences in all 50 states and in a number of foreign countries.

Kimber is a past president of the National Center for Constitutional Studies (NCCS), a conservative constitutionalist institution. He earned a B.S. in Accounting from Brigham Young University in 1971. Kimber was instrumental in developing a program for television called “The Miracle of America,” which was presented in a number of states.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Glenn Kimber” is american writer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Glenn, Kimber and American, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1971—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Glenn, Kimber and American is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Glenn Kimber” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.