Harlan Crow

Harlan Crow was born in Dallas, the third son of Margaret Doggett Crow and real estate developer Trammell Crow. Margaret Crow survived the sinking of the {{SS|Athenia|1922|6}}, the first British ship sunk by Nazi Germany during World War II. He has four brothers and one sister. He attended high school at the Randolph-Macon Academy in Front Royal, Virginia.{{cite news|last=Myerson|first=Allen R.|title=More Than a Chip Off the Building Block|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/01/business/more-than-a-chip-off-the-building-block.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=December 1, 1996|access-date=February 16, 2017|archive-date=October 23, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181023130022/https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/01/business/more-than-a-chip-off-the-building-block.html|url-status=live}} He later attended Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, before he transferred to the University of Texas, where he received a BBA.{{citation needed|date=July 2023}}

Crow worked as a leasing agent for Trammell Crow Houston Industrial from 1974 to 1978 and managed the Dallas Office Building development operations of Trammell Crow Company from 1978 to 1986. He then served as President of the Wyndham Hotel Company from 1986{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2014-01-08 |title=A Dallas Real Estate Family Tree |url=https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-ceo/2014/real-estate-annual/dallas-real-estate-family-tree/ |access-date=2024-02-10 |website=D Magazine |language=en-US}} to 1988. He assumed responsibility for Crow Holdings in 1988, doing so during a downturn in the company's finances.{{Cite news |last=Myerson |first=Allen R. |date=1996-12-01 |title=More Than a Chip Off the Building Block |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/01/business/more-than-a-chip-off-the-building-block.html |access-date=2024-02-10 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}} Crow diversified the company and took on more property management business, revitalizing the company.{{cite news |last1=VanSickle |first1=Abbie |title=Jet-Setting With Clarence Thomas Puts Spotlight on an Eccentric Billionaire |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/11/us/politics/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow.html |access-date=April 13, 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=April 11, 2023}}

He currently serves as chairman of Crow Holdings{{cite web|title=Harlan Crow|url=https://www.crowholdings.com/team/harlan-r-crow/|publisher=Crow Holdings|accessdate=April 6, 2023|archive-date=April 6, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406143850/https://www.crowholdings.com/team/harlan-r-crow/|url-status=live}} and was formerly its chief executive officer.{{cite web|title=Harlan Crow|url=http://www.crowholdings.com/about_us_harlan.php|publisher=Crow Holdings|accessdate=June 19, 2011|archive-date=July 27, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727193752/http://www.crowholdings.com/about_us_harlan.php|url-status=dead}}

Crow is a member of the founding committee of the Club for Growth and has served on the board of the American Enterprise Institute since 1996.{{cite news|last=Few|first=Jenel|title=Donation debate continues|url=http://savannahnow.com/stories/101401/LOClibrary.shtml|newspaper=Savannah Morning News|date=October 14, 2001|accessdate=June 26, 2022|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20020120233747/http://savannahnow.com/stories/101401/LOClibrary.shtml|archivedate=January 20, 2002|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=https://www.aei.org/articles/four-trustees-join-aei-board/|title=Four Trustees Join AEI Board|publisher=American Enterprise Institute|work=AEI Newsletter|date=February 1, 1996|accessdate=June 26, 2022|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/19970202013938/http://www.aei.org/nlfeb.htm|archivedate=February 2, 1997|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=https://www.aei.org/about/board-of-trustees/|title=Board of Trustees|publisher=American Enterprise Institute|accessdate=June 26, 2022|archive-date=January 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170113152626/https://www.aei.org/about/board-of-trustees/|url-status=live}} He has donated almost $5 million to Republican campaigns and conservative groups.

Crow donated $500,000 toward publicity campaigns for President George W. Bush's nominees for the Supreme Court. In 2009, Crow mounted an unsuccessful multimillion-dollar campaign to block the establishment of a publicly owned convention hotel in Dallas.{{cite news|last=Levinthal|first=Dave|title=After Dallas convention hotel battle, Harlan Crow extends olive branch to Mayor Tom Leppert|url=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/051109dnmetcrowleppert.136183a0.html|newspaper=The Dallas Morning News|date=May 10, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090514171406/http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/051109dnmetcrowleppert.136183a0.html|archive-date=May 14, 2009|accessdate=June 26, 2022|url-status=dead}} Politico reported, that same year, that Crow had provided $500,000 in seed money to establish the Tea Party-affiliated Liberty Central, founded by Virginia Thomas, the wife of Justice Thomas.Przybyla, Heidi [https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/10/ginni-thomas-leonard-leo-citizens-united-00108082 "What Ginni Thomas and Leonard Leo wrought: How a justice’s wife and a key activist started a movement"] Politico, September 10, 2023. Retrieved June 18, 2024.{{cite news|title=Justice Thomas' wife Virginia Thomas now a lobbyist|url=http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/48812.html|accessdate=June 25, 2011|newspaper=POLITICO|date=February 4, 2011|author=Kenneth P. Vogel|author-link=Kenneth P. Vogel|author2=Marin Cogan|author3=John Bresnahan|page=2|archive-date=February 6, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110206090759/http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/48812.html|url-status=live}} Crow declined to confirm or deny whether he was the donor in question, telling The New York Times, in February 2011, "I don't disclose what I'm not required to disclose."{{Cite news |last=Lichtblau |first=Eric |date=February 5, 2011 |title=Justice Thomas's Wife Sets Up a Conservative Lobbying Shop |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/05/us/politics/05thomas.html |access-date=April 6, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 5, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110205045956/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/05/us/politics/05thomas.html |url-status=live }}

The New Republic reported in 2023 that Crow has been a major donor to the political organization No Labels.{{Citation| last = Strauss| first = Daniel | title = No Labels Took More Than $100,000 From Clarence Thomas Buddy Harlan Crow| magazine = The New Republic| date = April 19, 2023| url = https://newrepublic.com/article/172059/no-labels-took-100000-clarence-thomas-buddy-harlan-crow}}

Harlan Crow also donated to many Conservative Democrats, Including Josh Gottheimer, Henry Cuellar, Kyrsten Sinema, Joe Manchin, Jim Costa, Vicente Gonzalez, Jared Golden, Ed Case, Elissa Slotkin,{{Cite web| title = Page by Page Report Display (Page 102 of 642)| work=Federal Election Commission| date = June 5, 2019| url = https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?201907149150595453}} Dean Phillips, Abigail Spanberger, Susie Lee, Lou Correa, Scott Peters and Josh Harder.{{Citation| last = Shankar| first = Vishal | title = Meet Harlan Crow's Favorite Democrats| work=The Revolving Door Project| date = October 30, 2023| url = https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/meet-harlan-crows-favorite-democrats/}}

Crow and his second wife, Kathy, have three children.{{Cite web |last=Joseph |date=April 6, 2023 |title=Harlan Crow children: Meet Jack, Rob, and Sarah |url=https://www.ghbase.com/harlan-crow-children-meet-jack-rob-and-sarah/ |access-date=April 6, 2023 |website=GhBase•com™-Everything & News Now |language=en-US |archive-date=April 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406185411/https://www.ghbase.com/harlan-crow-children-meet-jack-rob-and-sarah/ |url-status=live }} Kathy Crow earned a bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1989{{cite web |title=Advisors |url=https://jmp.princeton.edu/about/people/advisors |website=Princeton |access-date=April 6, 2023 |archive-date=April 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406191134/https://jmp.princeton.edu/about/people/advisors |url-status=live }} and an MBA from the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University (SMU). She is a member of the SMU board of trustees and a member of the executive boards of the Cox School of Business and the Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development.{{cite web |title=Kathy Crow Commons |url=https://www.smu.edu/StudentAffairs/ResidenceLifeandStudentHousing/LivingOnCampus/ResidentialCommons/KathyCrowCommons |website=SMU |access-date=April 6, 2023 |archive-date=April 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406190736/https://www.smu.edu/StudentAffairs/ResidenceLifeandStudentHousing/LivingOnCampus/ResidentialCommons/KathyCrowCommons |url-status=live }} In 2014, the Crows donated $5 million to build the Kathy Crow Commons at SMU.{{cite news |title=$5 million gift from Harlan and Kathy Crow to support SMU Residential Commons |url=https://www.smu.edu/News/2014/crow-gift-20march2014 |access-date=April 6, 2023 |work=SMU |date=March 20, 2014 |archive-date=April 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406192325/https://www.smu.edu/News/2014/crow-gift-20march2014 |url-status=live }}

Crow is a member of the all-male Bohemian Club, and as early as 1997 he had hosted Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as a guest at the group's annual Bohemian Grove summer gathering,{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gifts31dec31,0,69310.story |title=Justice Thomas Reports Wealth of Gifts|date=December 31, 2004 |last1=Serrano |first1=Richard A. |last2=Savage |first2=David G. |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050102031807/http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gifts31dec31,0,69310.story|archivedate=January 2, 2005|url-status=dead|accessdate=June 25, 2022}}{{cite news |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/us/politics/19thomas.html |title=Friendship of Justice and Magnate Puts Focus on Ethics |date=June 18, 2011 |last=McIntire |first=Mike |newspaper=The New York Times |accessdate=June 26, 2022|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110824093451/www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/us/politics/19thomas.html?pagewanted=all|archivedate=August 24, 2011|url-status=live}} having met Thomas in the mid-1990s. Crow was also a friend and former business partner of the publisher Wick Allison.{{cite news|last=Allison|first=Wick|title=Who Is Harlan Crow, And Why Are People Saying All Those Mean Things About Him? |url=https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2009/04/who-is-harlan-crow-and-why-are-people-saying-all-those-mean-things-about-him/|newspaper=Front Burner|date=April 25, 2009|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090519054941/http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/2009/04/25/who-is-harlan-crow-and-why-are-people-saying-all-those-mean-things-about-him/|archivedate=May 19, 2009|url-status=dead|accessdate=June 26, 2022}}

The Intercept and Project on Government Oversight reported in 2023 that Crow and his family purchased citizenship in St. Kitts and Nevis through the citizenship-by-investment program in 2012, raising concerns about the billionaire's ability to shelter assets and obscure financial transactions by taking advantage of the island nation's banking secrecy laws.{{Cite web |last1=Paladino |first1=Jason Paladino |last2=Klippenstein |first2=Ken |date=April 25, 2023 |title=Clarence Thomas Billionaire Benefactor Harlan Crow Bought Citizenship in Island Tax Haven |url=https://theintercept.com/2023/04/25/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-citizenship-st-kitts/ |access-date=April 26, 2023 |website=The Intercept |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Clarence Thomas Billionaire Benefactor Harlan Crow Bought Citizenship in Island Tax Haven |url=https://www.pogo.org/investigation/2023/04/clarence-thomas-billionaire-benefactor-harlan-crow-bought-citizenship-in-island-tax-haven |access-date=April 26, 2023 |website=Project On Government Oversight |language=en-US}}

In addition to providing initial funding for his wife's founding of Liberty Central in 2009; in 2023, ProPublica reported that Crow had given lavish gifts to Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas over a period of 20 years. The gifts include a $19,000 Bible that belonged to Frederick Douglass. Crow gave Thomas a portrait of the justice and his wife, according to the painter, Sharif Tarabay. Tax filings show that Crow's foundation also gave $105,000 to the Yale Law School, Thomas's alma mater, for the "Justice Thomas Portrait Fund". Justice Thomas has accepted numerous week-long luxury trips, including island-hopping on Crow's superyacht, international and domestic private jet travel, and private resort stays.{{cite news|last=Kaplan|first=Joshua|date=April 6, 2023|title=Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire|url=https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-scotus-undisclosed-luxury-travel-gifts-crow|work=ProPublica|location=|access-date=April 6, 2023|archive-date=April 6, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406135028/https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-scotus-undisclosed-luxury-travel-gifts-crow|url-status=live}}

On April 13, 2023, ProPublica reported that Crow had quietly paid Thomas for property occupied by Thomas's mother, despite law requiring disclosure of property sales by public officials.{{cite news |last1=Mierjeski |first1=Alex |first2=Joshua |last2=Kaplan |first3=Justin |last3=Elliot |title=Billionaire Harlan Crow Bought Property From Clarence Thomas. The Justice Didn't Disclose the Deal.

|url=https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-real-estate-scotus |access-date=April 13, 2023 |work=ProPublica |date=April 13, 2023 |language=en}} Crow said he bought the property with the intent of later turning the home into a public museum dedicated to Thomas. The property included two vacant lots.{{cite web | url=https://www.texastribune.org/2023/04/13/harlan-crow-clarence-thomas-house/ | title=Texas billionaire Harlan Crow bought property from Clarence Thomas. The justice didn't disclose the deal | date=April 13, 2023 }} Soon after the purchase, an architecture firm received permits to begin $36,000 of improvements, while Thomas's mother continues to live there.{{cite web | url=https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-real-estate-scotus | title=Harlan Crow Bought Property from Clarence Thomas. The Justice Didn't Disclose the Deal | date=April 13, 2023 }}{{cite magazine | url=https://newrepublic.com/post/171904/clarence-thomas-sold-mom-home-gop-megadonor-harlan-crow | title=Clarence Thomas Hid Real Estate Deal with Republican Billionaire Megadonor | magazine=The New Republic | date=April 13, 2023 | last1=Thakker | first1=Prem }}

Allegations have risen that Crow has been "subsidizing the lifestyle of Thomas and his wife" as Thomas continued to support conservative causes on the Supreme Court.

Under rules that went into effect on March 14, 2023, justices must disclose many forms of gifts they receive; but exceptions exist if a gift of food, lodging, or entertainment is deemed "personal in nature" and the hospitality has been directly offered by an individual who has a personal relationship to the government official in question.{{Cite web |last=Schonfeld |first=Zach |date=March 29, 2023 |title=Supreme Court justices face new disclosure requirements for gifts, free trips |url=https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/3923624-supreme-court-justices-face-new-disclosure-requirements-for-gifts-free-trips/ |access-date=April 6, 2023 |website=The Hill |language=en-US |archive-date=April 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406175514/https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/3923624-supreme-court-justices-face-new-disclosure-requirements-for-gifts-free-trips/ |url-status=live }} The new rules do however require disclosure of stays at commercial properties as well as private jet travel.{{cite news |last1=Wang |first1=Amy B. |last2=Barnes |first2=Robert |last3=Wagner |first3=John |title=Justice Thomas addresses report he accepted luxury travel from GOP donor for years |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/07/clarence-thomas-trips-crow-propublica/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=April 7, 2023 |date=April 7, 2023 |archive-date=April 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407182822/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/07/clarence-thomas-trips-crow-propublica/ |url-status=live }}

Legal experts cited by ProPublica say that Thomas did not disclose the gifts, violating a financial disclosure law and ethical norms for judges.{{cite news |last1=Breuninger |first1=Kevin |title=Clarence Thomas has accepted undisclosed luxury trips from GOP megadonor for decades, report says |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/06/clarence-thomas-took-gop-megadonor-harlan-crow-secret-luxury-trips-report.html |access-date=April 13, 2023 |work=CNBC |date=April 6, 2023 |language=en}} According to Crow, he has "never sought to influence Justice Thomas on any legal or political issue". Democratic lawmakers reacted to the revelations by demanding Thomas's resignation and calling for an investigation.

In a May 2023 letter Crow's lawyer said that the Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Dick Durbin, did not have "the authority to investigate Mr. Crow's personal friendship with Justice Thomas."{{cite news |last1=de Vogue |first1=Ariane |first2=Tierney |last2=Sneed |work=CNN |url=https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/23/politics/harlan-crow-durbin-clarence-thomas/index.html |date=May 3, 2023 |access-date=May 23, 2023 |title=GOP megadonor Harlan Crow declines to answer Democrats' questions about financial ties to Clarence Thomas}}

Crow's Dallas residence has an extensive collection of historical artifacts, including communist and Nazi memorabilia. His residence houses two paintings by Adolf Hitler and a signed copy of Mein Kampf.{{cite web | url=https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9QWUJEelIxYw/episode/MzdhZjA3MjYtZDU2ZC0xMWVkLWFlYmUtYjM2YzczM2E1MjA2?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwj44-P6wqv-AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQaA | title=The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg - I See Dumb People }}{{Cite web |date=April 7, 2023 |title=Clarence Thomas's Billionaire Benefactor Collects Hitler Artifacts - Washingtonian |url=https://www.washingtonian.com/2023/04/07/clarence-thomass-billionaire-benefactor-collects-hitler-artifacts/ |access-date=April 8, 2023 |language=en-US |archive-date=April 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230408194438/https://www.washingtonian.com/2023/04/07/clarence-thomass-billionaire-benefactor-collects-hitler-artifacts/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |first=Alexander |last=Burns |title=Springtime for Hitler('s paintings) |url=https://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/06/springtime-for-hitler-s-paintings-125291 |access-date=April 8, 2023 |website=POLITICO |date=June 5, 2012 |language=en |archive-date=April 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230408221514/https://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/06/springtime-for-hitler-s-paintings-125291 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=LoBianco |first=Tom |date=September 25, 2015 |title=Marco Rubio 'outraged' at DNC chair's Hitler knock {{!}} CNN Politics |url=https://www.cnn.com/2015/09/24/politics/marco-rubio-debbie-wasserman-schultz-hitler/index.html |access-date=April 8, 2023 |website=CNN |language=en |archive-date=April 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230408154841/https://www.cnn.com/2015/09/24/politics/marco-rubio-debbie-wasserman-schultz-hitler/index.html |url-status=live }}{{cite web | url=https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9QWUJEelIxYw/episode/MTIxNjIwNDYtZGFmNy0xMWVkLWEwYmEtN2IyZWFkNzU5MTYx?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwj44-P6wqv-AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQaA | title=The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg - Banana Republicans }} Crow's backyard garden features what he named the 'Garden of Evil',{{Cite news |last=Murphy |first=Tim |date=April 21, 2023 |title=What Is Gavrilo Princip Doing in Harlan Crow's "Garden of Evil"? |language=en-US |work=Mother Jones |url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/04/gavrilo-princip-harlan-crow-garden-of-evil-clarence-thomas/ |access-date=January 13, 2024 }} which is home to at least 20 statues of authoritarian leaders and Communist icons including Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Fidel Castro, Mao Zedong, Karl Marx, Hosni Mubarak, Josip Broz Tito, Nicolae Ceausescu, Walter Ulbricht, Gavrilo Princip, Bela Kun, and Che Guevara.{{Cite news |last=Romero |first=Simon |date=July 2, 2003 |title=Collecting Despots, Assassins And Such |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/02/arts/collecting-despots-assassins-and-such.html |access-date=April 9, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=April 9, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230409193840/https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/02/arts/collecting-despots-assassins-and-such.html |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |date=March 21, 2014 |title=History abounds inside Harlan Crow's home |url=https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/2014/03/21/history-abounds-inside-harlan-crows-home/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230409142524/https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/2014/03/21/history-abounds-inside-harlan-crows-home/ |archive-date=April 9, 2023 |access-date=April 9, 2023 |website=Dallas News |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=September 12, 2017 |title=The Downward Spiral |url=https://spikeartmagazine.com/?q=articles%2Fdownward-spiral-4 |access-date=April 9, 2023 |website=Spike Art Magazine |language=en |archive-date=December 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221209054750/https://www.spikeartmagazine.com/?q=articles%2Fdownward-spiral-4 |url-status=live }} Crow acquired these former public monuments after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc.{{cite web|last=Repko|first=Melissa|url=http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/park-cities/headlines/20131130-harlan-crow-seeks-zoning-at-highland-park-home-for-collection.ece|title=Harlan Crow seeks zoning at Highland Park home for collection |work=The Dallas Morning News|date=November 30, 2013|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141102014957/http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/park-cities/headlines/20131130-harlan-crow-seeks-zoning-at-highland-park-home-for-collection.ece|archivedate=November 2, 2014|accessdate=June 26, 2022|url-status=dead}} According to Crow, he collects such memorabilia because he "hates communism and fascism".{{Cite web |last=McClure |first=Kelly |date=April 8, 2023 |title=Clarence Thomas' benefactor collects Hitler memorabilia |url=https://www.salon.com/2023/04/08/clarence-thomas-benefactor-collects-hitler-memorabilia/ |access-date=April 9, 2023 |website=Salon |language=en |archive-date=April 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230408200929/https://www.salon.com/2023/04/08/clarence-thomas-benefactor-collects-hitler-memorabilia/ |url-status=live }} Crow also owns original paintings by Claude Monet, Rembrandt Peale, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Winston Churchill, and Dwight D. Eisenhower.{{cite web|last=Greene|first=Mariana|url=http://www.dallasnews.com/lifestyles/columnists/mariana-greene/20140321-harlan-crows-rare-papers-and-statues-are-powerful-on-their-own.ece|title=History abounds inside Harlan Crow's home|work=The Dallas Morning News|date=March 21, 2014|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140322081351/http://www.dallasnews.com/lifestyles/columnists/mariana-greene/20140321-harlan-crows-rare-papers-and-statues-are-powerful-on-their-own.ece|archivedate=March 22, 2014|url-status=dead|accessdate=June 26, 2022}}

Crow's private library contains a collection of 8,500 books and manuscripts including historical documents from Juan Ponce de León, Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, George Washington, Robert E. Lee, and all the signers of the United States Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States.

In 1984, Crow and his father formed a company, Rochelle Charter Inc., whose purpose was to lease out their new yacht, the Michaela Rose. In June 2023, Crow's attorney said that the yacht was used by Crow's friends, family, and employees. That does not meet the legal standard that for yacht leasing to be considered a for-profit business (and thus expenses to be deductible on tax returns): the yacht needed to be regularly chartered to third parties at fair market value.{{Cite web |last=Kiel |first=Paul |date=2023-07-17 |title=How Harlan Crow Slashed his Tax Bill by Taking Clarence Thomas on Superyacht Cruises |url=https://www.propublica.org/article/harlan-crow-slashed-tax-bill-clarence-thomas-superyacht |access-date=2024-02-10 |website=ProPublica |language=en}}

In a February 2024 letter to Crow, Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden asked for justification for Crow's tax deductions, writing that “Any effort to mischaracterize a yacht used as a pleasure craft as a business is a run of the mill tax scam, plain and simple.{{Cite web |last=Bopp |first=Michael |date=February 6, 2024 |title=Senate Finance Committee Letter to Harlan Crow, February 6, 2024 |url=https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24408434-letter-2024-2-5-wyden-to-crow |access-date=2024-02-10 |website=www.documentcloud.org |publisher=ProPublica}} Committee investigators determined that the yacht was not legally licensed to be chartered out for the transportation of passengers for hire in the United States.{{Cite web |last=Kiel |first=Paul |date=2024-02-06 |title=Senate Investigation "Casts Fresh Doubt" About the Validity of Harlan Crow's Yacht Tax Deductions |url=https://www.propublica.org/article/senate-probe-casts-doubt-harlan-crow-yacht-tax-deductions |access-date=2024-02-10 |website=ProPublica |language=en}}

{{Reflist|30em}}

• [http://www.crowholdings.com/about_us_harlan.php Crow's biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727193752/http://www.crowholdings.com/about_us_harlan.php |date=July 27, 2011 }} at the Crow Holdings website

{{DEFAULTSORT:Crow, Harlan R.}}

Category:1949 births

Category:Living people

Category:Businesspeople from Dallas

Category:American businesspeople in real estate

Category:American Enterprise Institute

Category:Texas Republicans

Category:Emory University alumni

Category:McCombs School of Business alumni

Category:20th-century American businesspeople

Category:21st-century American businesspeople

Category:Crow family

Category:20th-century American art collectors

Category:21st-century art collectors

Category:Saint Kitts and Nevis businesspeople

Category:21st-century Saint Kitts and Nevis people

Category:Naturalised citizens of Saint Kitts and Nevis