What You Didn't Know About Rep. Roy Blunt of Missouri
16th Nov 2006, 23:44 GMT
He was born on Jan. 10, 1950, in Niangua, Mo. He and his younger brother, Ron, were raised on a dairy farm near Springfield. The family moved six times by the time the boys were teenagers. He graduated from Southwest Baptist University in 1970 with a bachelor's degree in history. He earned a master's in history from Southwest Missouri State University in 1972. He volunteered his 1958 Ford pickup truck for John Ashcroft's unsuccessful 1972 campaign for Congress. Before his election to Congress in 1996, he spent time as a high school and college teacher, Missouri secretary of state, and president of Southwest Baptist University. He has three children and five grandchildren with his first wife, Roseann. He married his second wife, Abigail, in 2003. They adopted a baby boy from Russia in April. He lost his left kidney to cancer in 2002. His family is heavily involved in politics. His father was a state representative. His son Matt is the governor of Missouri. His son Andrew is a state lobbyist for a Missouri law firm. His daughter, Amy, is a lobbyist in Washington, D.C. His wife is a lobbyist. She lobbied for Philip Morris until 2005; she currently lobbies for Kraft Foods. He keeps an anonymous bust in his office that dates to 1815. It is the only unidentified bust in the Capitol. He collects artifacts from American Indian Missouri tribes, which he plans to display at the Smithsonian Institution.
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