Representative Roy Blunt with Kennedy Center Chairman Stephen A. Schwarzman and his wife Christine at the NSO 2009 Opening Ball in Washington, DC. Photo: Margot Ingoldsby Schulman
Representative Roy Blunt is a Republican Congressman from Missouri.
Personal: The Congressman is married to Abigail Blunt. Blunt has four children: Matt Blunt, Missouri’s 54th Governor; Amy Blunt, an attorney in Kansas City, Mo.; Andy Blunt, an attorney in Jefferson City; and Charlie (age 4). Blunt has five grandchildren: Davis Mosby, Ben Blunt, Branch Blunt, Eva Mosby, and Allyson Blunt.
Background: Blunt is now the second-highest Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee and is also a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. He became the Majority Whip earlier in his career than any Member of Congress in the last eight decades and also served as Majority Leader.
Before coming to Congress, Blunt was elected in 1984 as Missouri’s first Republican Secretary of State in more than 50 years, a position he held for two terms, and served four years as the president of Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Missouri.
