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About Robert A. G. Monks
- Robert Augustus Gardner Monks (born December 4, 1933) is a shareholder activist and co-founder of Institutional Shareholder Services, Lens Investment Management, Lens Governance Advisors and The Corporate Library (now part of GMI Ratings).
- He is the author of Corpocracy and The New Global Investors and, with Nell Minow, Watching the Watchers, Corporate Governance and Power & Accountability.
- He was the Republican nominee for the U.S.
- Senate from Maine in 1976, losing in a landslide to Democratic Senator Edmund Muskie.
- He again ran for Senate in 1996, but lost that Republican primary to Susan Collins.
- He also unsuccessfully challenged longtime Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith in the 1972 Republican primary.
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