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- Edward H. Crane, founder of the Cato Institute, died February 10 at age 81 from heart failure.
- Crane established the Cato Institute in 1977 with funding from Charles Koch.
- He helped found the Libertarian Party in 1972 and built Cato by recruiting scholars and raising funds.
- Under his leadership, Cato merged left-leaning social policies with right-leaning economic policies, gaining mainstream respectability.
