Angela McArdle
Angela McArdle | |
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McArdle in 2024 | |
| Chair of the Mises Caucus | |
| Assumed office June 2, 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Aaron Harris |
| 22nd Chair of the Libertarian National Committee | |
| In office May 28, 2022 – February 2, 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Whitney Bilyeu |
| Succeeded by | Steven Nekhaila |
| Secretary of the Libertarian Party of California | |
| In office April 29, 2018 – April 6, 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Honor Robson |
| Succeeded by | Paul Vallandigham |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Angela Elise McArdle June 7, 1983 |
| Party | Republican (2026-present) |
| Other political affiliations | Libertarian (2017-2025) Mises Caucus |
| Children | 1 |
| Education | Biola University (BA) University of California, Los Angeles (CP) |
Angela Elise McArdle (born June 7, 1983) is an American politician who is the chair of the Mises Caucus political action committee since June 2025. She previously served as the 22nd chair of the Libertarian National Committee (LNC) from May 2022 to February 2025, secretary of the Libertarian Party of California from April 2018 to April 2019 and a former board member and organizer of the Mises Caucus before May 2022. McArdle would be investigated for self-dealing by the LNC the day before she resigned, with the LNC reporting that not only had she committed gross fiduciary violations, but that she is “unfit to serve on the Libertarian National Committee, as an affiliate leader or as a candidate representing the Libertarian Party.”
Under her tenure as LNC Chair, McArdle was claimed to have played a key role in leveraging the Libertarian Party's spoiler effect into securing a pardon for Ross Ulbricht by Donald Trump, something McArdle herself denies, instead arguing that Trump had a signed pardon ready to go from 2020 that he was foiled from delivering by disloyal underlings.