| Roy Blunt  AKA Roy D. Blunt
Born: 10-Jan-1950
Birthplace: Niangua, MO
Gender: Male
Religion: Baptist
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Politician
Party Affiliation: Republican Nationality: United States
Executive summary: US Senator from Missouri College administrator and Missouri Secretary of State elected to US Congress for seven terms beginning in 1997, succeeding Mel Hancock. Served as House Majority Leader after Tom DeLay's 2005 indictment. Elected to US Senate in 2010, succeeding retired Senator Kit Bond and succeeded in Congress by Billy Long. Conservative Republican; generally anti-abortion rights, anti-gay rights, pro-gun rights, anti-net neutrality. Supported 1998-99 Clinton impeachment, 2001 USA PATRIOT Act, 2002 Iraq War resolution, 2004 restriction to bankruptcy rules, 2008 Wall Street bailout; opposed 2008 GM/Chrysler bailout, 2009 economic stimulus, 2010 health care reform.
In 2013, inserted the "Monsanto Protection Act" rider into an emergency budget bill, exempting Monsanto's genetically modified organisms (GMOs) from judicial and regulatory scrutiny. Father: Leroy Blunt
Wife: Roseann Ray (m. 1967, div. 2002, 3 children)
Wife: Abigail Perlman (Philip Morris lobbyist, m. 18-Oct-2003)
Son: Matt Blunt (former Governor of Missouri)
Daughter: Amy
Son: Andrew B. Blunt (Phillip Morris employee)
University: BA History, Southwest Baptist University, Bolivar, MO (1970)
University: MA History, Southwest Missouri State University (1972)
Administrator: President, Southwest Baptist University, Bolivar, MO (1993-96)
US Senator, Missouri (2011-)
US Congressman, Missouri 7th (1997-2011)
Missouri Secretary of State (1984-93)
Missouri State Official Clerk and Chief Election Officer, Greene County, MO (1973-84)
Birther Movement
Global Warming Skeptics
Center for Democracy Board of Directors
Freemasonry
Friends of Roy Blunt
Kappa Alpha Order
Kiwanis Club
Leadership Institute Bi-Partisan Congressional Advisory Board
National Council for a New America National Panel of Experts
National Student Leadership Conference Honorary Board of Advisors
Rely on Your Beliefs Fund
Ripon Society Honorary Advisory Board
Draft Deferment: Vietnam
Surgery kidney removal (Jul-2002), left
Prostate Surgery (Jul-2003)
Surgery coronary stent implantation (Jan-2012)
Risk Factors: Toupee, Prostate Cancer, Kidney Cancer
Official Website:
http://www.senate.gov/
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