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{{Short description|
{{About|the politician|the writer and humorist|Roy Blount Jr.}}
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|predecessor3 = [[Richard Shelby]]
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|successor5 = [[Eric Cantor]]
|office6 = [[Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives|House Majority Leader]]
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|leader6 = [[Dennis Hastert]]
|term_start6 = September 29, 2005
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|successor7 = [[Jim Clyburn]]
|office8 = [[Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives|House Republican Chief Deputy Whip]]
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* {{marriage|Roseann Ray|1967|2003|end=div}} * {{marriage|Abigail Perlman|2003}} }}
|children = 4, including [[Matt Blunt|Matt]]
|father = [[Leroy Blunt]]
|education = [[Southwest Baptist University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br />[[Missouri State University]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]]) |signature = Roy Blunt Signature.svg
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'''Roy Dean Blunt'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legistorm.com/member/131/Rep_Roy_Blunt.html|title=Representative Roy Blunt (R-Missouri, 7th)|
▲'''Roy Dean Blunt'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legistorm.com/member/131/Rep_Roy_Blunt.html|title=Representative Roy Blunt (R-Missouri, 7th)|work=LegiStorm|access-date=2014-08-20}}</ref> (born January 10, 1950) is an American <!-- Do not add any other professions here -->politician who served as a [[United States Senate|United States senator]] from [[Missouri]] from 2011 to 2023. A member of the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]], he previously served as the 33rd [[List of Missouri secretaries of state|Missouri Secretary of State]] (1985–1993) and [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] for [[Missouri's 7th congressional district]] (1997–2011).
Born in [[Niangua, Missouri]], Blunt is a graduate of [[Southwest Baptist University]] and Southwest Missouri State University (now [[Missouri State University]]). After serving as Missouri Secretary of State from 1985 to 1993, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for [[Missouri's 7th congressional district]] in 1996. There, he served as [[Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives|Republican Whip]] from 2003 to 2009.
Blunt successfully ran for the U.S. Senate in 2010. The next year, he was elected [[Vice Chairman of the United States Senate Republican Conference|vice chairman]] of the Senate Republican Conference.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-12-13/senate-republicans-elect-thune-no-3-leader-as-alexander-focuses-on-2014|title=Senate Republicans Elect Thune, Barrasso and Blunt to Top Posts|first=Laura|last=Litvan|date=December 13, 2011 |website=Bloomberg|access-date=September 17, 2016}}</ref> Blunt, who
On July 17, 2023, it was announced that Blunt was appointed as a member of [[Southwest Airlines]]' board of directors.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ex-missouri-sen-roy-blunt-appointed-southwest-airlines-board-directors|title=Ex-Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt appointed to Southwest Airlines board of directors|date=July 17, 2023|website=Associated Press}}</ref>
==Early life, education, and career==
Blunt was born on January 10, 1950, in [[Niangua, Missouri]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=Blunt, Roy|url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/B000575|access-date=2021-01-21|website=[[Biographical Directory of the United States Congress]]}}</ref> the son of Neva Dora (née Letterman) and [[Leroy Blunt]], a politician.{{citation needed|date=January 2021}} He earned a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] degree in [[history]] in 1970 from [[Southwest Baptist University]].<ref name=gasconade>{{cite web|url=http://www.gasconadecountyrepublican.com/news/gasconade_county/article_f530b38a-a6f9-5ae2-a8b7-3cc07bb15e70.html|title=U.S. Senate candidate Roy Blunt scheduled to speak at Republican Committee picnic Sept. 13|work=Gasconade County Republican|date=August 26, 2009|access-date=2016-09-19|archive-date=September 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170913024335/http://www.gasconadecountyrepublican.com/news/gasconade_county/article_f530b38a-a6f9-5ae2-a8b7-3cc07bb15e70.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Two years later, he earned a [[master's degree]] in history from Southwest Missouri State University.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://history.house.gov/People/Detail/9520|title=Roy Blunt: profile |publisher=United States House |access-date=2016-09-19}}</ref> During his time in college, he received three draft deferments from the Vietnam War.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/senator-faces-controversy-over-vietnam-era-draft-deferments |title=Senator faces controversy over Vietnam-era draft deferments |work=The Rachel Maddow Show |date=February 12, 2016 |publisher=MSNBC |access-date=September 17, 2016}}</ref> Blunt was a high school history teacher at Marshfield High School from 1970 to 1972;<ref>{{cite news|last1=Wise|first1=Lindsay|title=Roy Blunt, a Capitol Hill master strategist, faces his toughest political challenge |url=http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/election/article108217977.html|access-date=October 22, 2016 |work=Kansas City Star|date=October 14, 2016}}</ref> he later taught at [[Southwest Baptist University]] and as a member of the adjunct faculty at [[Drury University]].<ref name=gasconade/>
He went on to serve as president of [[Southwest Baptist University]], his [[alma mater]], from 1993 to 1996.<ref>{{cite web|title=BLUNT, Roy|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=b000575|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=November 23, 2016}}</ref>
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===Tenure===
Blunt voted in favor of [[school prayer]] and supported the [[No Child Left Behind Act]]. He voted in favor of [[school vouchers]] within the [[District of Columbia]] but against broader legislation allowing states to use federal money to issue vouchers for private or religious schools. He received a 17% rating from the [[National Education Association]] in 2003.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.issues2000.org/House/Roy_Blunt_Education.htm|title=Roy Blunt on Education|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|work=On The Issues|access-date=September 17, 2016}}</ref>
Blunt received a 97% rating from the [[United States Chamber of Commerce]]. He supported efforts to overhaul [[Bankruptcy in the United States|U.S. bankruptcy laws]], requiring consumers who seek bankruptcy protection to repay more of their debts.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.issues2000.org/House/Roy_Blunt_Corporations.htm|title=Roy Blunt on Corporations|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|work=On The Issues|access-date=September 17, 2016}}</ref>
Blunt opposes federal cap and trade legislation and supports drilling for oil on the U.S. coastline. He does not believe in man-made [[global warming]], stating: "There isn't any real science to say we are altering the climate or path of the Earth."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2011/02/04/133498148/taking-the-politics-out-of-climate-science|title=Taking The Politics Out Of Climate Science|work=NPR|date=February 4, 2011|access-date=October 25, 2012}}</ref>
Blunt voted to prohibit lawsuits against gun manufacturers and dealers if the guns they manufacture or sell are later used in a crime. He has also voted to require anyone who purchases a gun at a gun show to go through a background check that must be completed within 24 hours.<ref>{{cite web|title=H.R.2122 - Mandatory Gun Show Background Check Act|url=https://www.congress.gov/bill/106th-congress/house-bill/2122/|website=Congress.gov|date=June 18, 1999}}</ref> He has received an "A" rating from the [[
Blunt chaired the House Republican Health Care Solutions Group.<ref name="(un)truth">{{Cite news|title=The (un)truth about health reform|newspaper=[[Springfield News-Leader]]|date=August 19, 2009|url=http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090819/OPINIONS02/908190410&plckFindCommentKey=CommentKey:de5914c7-a167-4b4f-b2d7-f1e40afcc5fe|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090822125123/http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20090819%2FOPINIONS02%2F908190410&plckFindCommentKey=CommentKey%3Ade5914c7-a167-4b4f-b2d7-f1e40afcc5fe|archive-date=August 22, 2009}}</ref>
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In August 2009, Blunt stated in two separate newspaper interviews that, because he was 59 years old, "In either [[Canada]] or [[Great Britain]], if I broke my hip, I couldn't get it replaced." He stated he had heard the statement in Congressional testimony by "some people who are supposed to be experts on Canadian health care."<ref name="(un)truth"/> The PolitiFact service of the ''[[St. Petersburg Times]]'' reported that it could not find any such testimony.<ref>{{cite web|title=At 59, GOP Congressman says he couldn't get a hip replacement in Canada or England|work=PolitiFact|author=Jacobson, Louis|url=http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/aug/19/roy-blunt/59-gop-congressman-says-he-couldnt-get-hip|date=August 19, 2009|access-date=September 19, 2020}}</ref>
Blunt voted against HR 2007-018, which raised the federal [[minimum wage]] to $7.25 per hour.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web|url=http://www.komu.com/news/raising-the-minimum-wage-becomes-topic-of-conversation-on-labor-day|title=Raising the minimum wage becomes topic of conversation on Labor Day|author=Henderson, Amanda|work=Komu.com|date=2016-09-05|access-date=2016-11-02}}</ref>
He has voted to ban [[partial-birth abortion]]s and to restrict or criminalize transporting minors across state lines for the purpose of getting an [[abortion]]. He opposes federal funding for elective abortions in accordance with the [[Hyde Amendment]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.issues2000.org/House/Roy_Blunt_Abortion.htm|title=Roy Blunt on Abortion|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|work=On The Issues|access-date=September 17, 2016}}</ref>
He voted in favor of the unsuccessful [[Federal Marriage Amendment]] which sought to place a national ban on [[same-sex marriage]], and has voted against [[LGBT adoption in the United States|gay adoption]]. He received 94% lifetime and 96% 2004 ratings from the conservative [[American Conservative Union]], a 14% rating from the [[American Civil Liberties Union|ACLU]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.issues2000.org/House/Roy_Blunt_Civil_Rights.htm#1998-133|title=Roy Blunt on Civil Rights|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|date=September 17, 2016|work=On The Issues|access-date=September 17, 2016}}</ref> and a 92% rating from the conservative [[Christian Coalition of America|Christian Coalition]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.issues2000.org/House/Roy_Blunt_Families_+_Children.htm|title=Roy Blunt on Families & Children|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|access-date=September 17, 2016|work=On The Issues}}</ref>
In 2005, Blunt supported President [[George W. Bush]]'s proposal to partially privatize [[Social Security (United States)|Social Security]] for those under the age of 55.<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=http://states.aarp.org/mo-senate|title=Social Security Looms Over Senate Race -AARP States|author=Bridges, George|website=States.aarp.org|date=October 2016|access-date=2016-11-02}}</ref>
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Upon entering the U.S. House, Blunt served on the [[U.S. House Committee on International Relations|House International Relations Committee]], the House Committee on Agriculture, and the House Transportation Committee. In 1999, he gave up seats on the latter two committees and joined the Committee on Energy and Commerce. In addition he became a member of the [[United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence|Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence]].
==U.S. Senate (
===2010 election===
{{Main|2010 United States Senate election in Missouri}}
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In 2020, Blunt voted to acquit Trump in his [[First impeachment trial of Donald Trump|first impeachment trial]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-01-29|title=Sen. Blunt Opposes Trump Impeachment, Backs Medical Marijuana Banking|url=https://news.stlpublicradio.org/government-politics-issues/2020-01-28/sen-blunt-opposes-trump-impeachment-backs-medical-marijuana-banking|access-date=2020-11-05|website=St. Louis Public Radio|language=en}}</ref>
In 2021, Blunt was one of 43 senators who voted to acquit Trump in his [[Second impeachment trial of Donald Trump|second impeachment trial]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Mastrangelo|first=Dominick|date=2021-03-09|title=Trump praises retiring Blunt, who opposed his conviction|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/542392-trump-praises-retiring-blunt-who-opposed-his-conviction/|access-date=2022-01-18|website=The Hill|language=en}}</ref>
In 2022, after the [[FBI search of Mar-a-Lago]], Blunt said that Trump "should have turned over all the documents" to the National Archives when he left office. Blunt also expressed concern over the timing of the search, citing the upcoming [[2022 United States elections|midterm elections]].<ref>.{{cite web|last=Mueller |first=Julia |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/3618788-gop-senator-trump-should-have-turned-over-all-documents/ |title=GOP senator: Trump should have turned over 'all' documents |date=August 28, 2022 |work=The Hill}}</ref>
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In 2018, Blunt rejected the CIA's "high confidence" assessment that Saudi prince Mohammed bin-Salman ordered the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent critic of the Saudi regime.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/meet-the-senators-who-took-saudi-money/|title=Meet the Senators Who Took Saudi Money|last=Freeman|first=Ben|website=The American Conservative|date=December 7, 2018 |language=en-US|access-date=2018-12-10}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://politi.co/2KaU3gx|title='Smoking gun' would help implicate Saudi prince, Senate Republican says|last=Forgey|first=Quint|website=POLITICO|language=en|date=November 18, 2018|access-date=2018-12-10}}</ref> Blunt said, "we don't quite have all the information we’d like to have yet."<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />
In January 2020, Blunt supported the Trump administration ordering the killing of [[Qasem Soleimani]].<ref>{{Cite web|title='Insulting and demeaning': Two GOP lawmakers rip Trump administration after Iran briefing|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/insulting-demeaning-lawmakers-rip-trump-administration-after-iran-briefing-n1112596|access-date=2022-01-18|website=NBC News|date=January 8, 2020 |language=en}}</ref>[[File:President Donald Trump and Roy Blunt.jpg|thumb|right|Blunt with [[President of the United States|President]] [[Donald Trump]] in August 2017]]
In 2021, Blunt criticized the [[Withdrawal of United States troops from Afghanistan (2020–2021)|U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan]], arguing that there was a failure to evacuate U.S. citizens and their family members.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kmov.com/news/local-dad-fights-to-evacuate-wife-young-daughter-from-afghanistan/article_6a1a403c-5494-11ec-8b87-8367139952db.html|title=Local dad fights to evacuate wife, young daughter from Afghanistan|first=Susan|last=el Khourly|work=kmov.com|date=December 3, 2021|access-date=December 7, 2021}}</ref>
====Gun policy====
Blunt has an "A" rating from the [[
In April 2013, Blunt was one of forty-six senators to vote against the passing of a bill which would have expanded background checks for all gun buyers. Blunt voted with 40 Republicans and 5 Democrats to stop the bill, which failed to pass.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/18/modeling-the-senates-vote-on-gun-control|work=The New York Times|first=Nate|last=Silver|title=Modeling the Senate's Vote on Gun Control|date=April 18, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130420020054/http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/18/modeling-the-senates-vote-on-gun-control|archive-date=April 20, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Weisman|first=Jonathan|date=April 17, 2013|title=Senate Blocks Drive for Gun Control|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/18/us/politics/senate-obama-gun-control.html|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|location=New York|access-date=December 25, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130420013710/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/18/us/politics/senate-obama-gun-control.html|archive-date=April 20, 2013|quote=In rapid succession, a bipartisan compromise to expand background checks for gun buyers, a ban on assault weapons and a ban on high-capacity gun magazines all failed to get the 60 votes needed under an agreement between both parties.}}{{Subscription required|date=September 2023}}</ref>
One month after the 2016 [[Orlando nightclub shooting]], Blunt voted for two Republican-sponsored bills. The first was proposed by [[John Cornyn]] and would have enabled a 72-hour waiting period for federal authorities to investigate individuals seeking to buy guns who are listed on the terrorist watch list. The second bill, proposed by [[Chuck Grassley]], would have expanded background checks and made it illegal for individuals with certain [[mental health]] disorders to purchase guns. Neither bill passed. Blunt voted against two Democrat-sponsored bills, both which also did not pass, including one that would have made background checks required for online gun sales and gun sales at gun shows and another that would have not allowed anyone on the terrorist watchlist to purchase a gun.<ref name="Wise1005G">{{cite web|last1=Wise|first1=Lindsay|title=How did Missouri, Kansas senators vote on gun legislation?|url=http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article84936042.html|website=The Kansas City Star|access-date=October 5, 2017|language=en}}</ref>
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In response to the [[2017 Las Vegas shooting]], Blunt said he was "saddened by the tragic loss of life" and offered his thoughts to the victims.<ref name="Leonhardt1005g">{{cite web|last1=Leonhardt|first1=David|last2=Philbrick|first2=Ian Prasad|last3=Thompson|first3=Stuart A.|title=The Congress Members Receiving the Most N.R.A. Funding|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/04/opinion/thoughts-prayers-nra-funding-senators.html?_r=0|website=The New York Times|access-date=October 5, 2017|date=October 4, 2017}}</ref>
In 2022, Blunt later became one of ten Republican Senators to support a bipartisan agreement on gun control, which involved a red flag provision, a support for state crisis intervention orders, funding for school safety resources, stronger background checks for buyers under the age of 21, and penalties for straw purchases.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/12/politics/senate-gun-safety-agreement/index.html|title=Bipartisan group of senators announces agreement on gun control|publisher=CNN|last1=Bash|first1=Dana|last2=Raju|first2=Manu|last3=Judd|first3=Donald|date=June 12, 2022|accessdate=June 12, 2022}}</ref> As a result of Blunt supporting the Safer Communities Act hunter safety and school archery programs have come under attack by the Department of Education.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.news-leader.com/story/sports/outdoors/2023/09/11/are-archery-and-shooting-courses-under-fire-at-missouri-schools/70800099007/ | title=Missouri's Bailey among 24 AGs seeking to protect funding for hunting safety, archery }}</ref>
====Health policy====
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Blunt said of the amendment, "[W]as it an overreach when Mrs. [[Hillary Clinton|Clinton]] put it in the [[Clinton health care plan]] in 1994? I don't think it's an overreach at all. It doesn't mention any specific procedure. It doesn't even suggest the mandate should be eliminated."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0212/73415.html#ixzz1nkRS9RsA|title=Roy Blunt: The new culture warrior|work=Politico|author=Wong, Scott|date=February 28, 2012|access-date=2014-08-20}}</ref>
In 2012, Blunt attempted to add an amendment to a highway funding bill that would allow employers to refuse to provide health insurance for birth control and contraceptives.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Aizenman |first1=N. C. |last2=Helderman |first2=Rosalind S. |date=2012-03-01 |title=Birth control exemption bill, the 'Blunt amendment,' killed in Senate |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/birth-control-exemption-bill-the-blunt-amendment-killed-in-senate/2012/03/01/gIQA4tXjkR_story.html |access-date=2018-03-09 |issn=0190-8286}}</ref> In a press release, Blunt defended the amendment on the grounds that it protected the [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution|First Amendment]] rights of religious employers; the amendment failed, with 51 senators voting against it.<ref>{{Cite news |author1=Tom Cohen |author2=Dan Merica |title=Senate kills controversial 'conscience' amendment - CNNPolitics |work=CNN |url=https://www.cnn.com/2012/03/01/politics/senate-health-care/index.html |access-date=2018-03-09}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Swanson |first=Ian |date=2012-03-01 |title=Senate rejects Blunt amendment to limit birth-control mandate |language=en |work=TheHill |url=
In July 2013, Blunt indicated that he would not support efforts to tie raising the federal debt ceiling to defunding Obamacare. In an interview on MSNBC, he expressed his opinion that Obamacare is "destined to fail", but that raising the debt ceiling should not be "held hostage" to "any specific thing".<ref>{{cite news|last1=Sargent|first1=Greg|title=Another GOP Senator breaks with debt ceiling hostage strategy|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/07/24/another-gop-senator-breaks-with-debt-ceiling-hostage-strategy|access-date=August 13, 2014|newspaper=Washington Post|date=July 24, 2013}}</ref>
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==== LGBT rights ====
In 2013, Blunt voted against [[Employment Non-Discrimination Act]], which would have outlawed employer discrimination based on sexuality or gender identity.<ref>{{Cite news |author=Liebelson, Dana |date=November 7, 2013 |title=Meet the 32 Senate Republicans who voted to continue LGBT discrimination in the workplace |language=en-US |work=Mother Jones |url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/11/senate-republicans-lgbt-discrimination-employment-transgender-gay/ |access-date=2018-03-09}}</ref> In 2022, Blunt stated his support for gay marriage, recanting his longstanding opposition, and later that year voted for the [[Respect for Marriage Act]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ross |first=Garrett |title=POLITICO Playbook PM: Counting votes for the Senate's same-sex marriage bill |url=https://politi.co/3ofrGm2 |access-date=2022-07-20 |website=POLITICO |date=July 20, 2022 |language=en |quote=Retiring Sen. ROY BLUNT (R-Mo.) “says he supports gay marriage but wants to look at the House bill,” per Bobic.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=U.S. Senate: U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 117th Congress - 2nd Session |url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1172/vote_117_2_00362.htm |access-date=2023-09-04 |website=www.senate.gov}}</ref>
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==Family and personal life==
Blunt has been married twice. He married Roseann Ray in May 1967; he had three children with her: [[Matt Blunt|Matt]], the former governor of Missouri, Amy Blunt Mosby and [[Andrew Blunt]].<ref>{{cite news|title=For Roy Blunt, politics is a family matter |url=https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/for-roy-blunt-politics-is-a-family-matter/article_5a73feb1-d7e7-567a-b5fb-619c16d6fa16.html|access-date=September 19, 2016|newspaper=St. Louis Post-Dispatch|date=October 13, 2010}}</ref> All three children are corporate lobbyists.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newstribune.com/news/news/story/2012/jan/16/former-missouri-governor-takes-new-roles/546738|title=Former Missouri governor takes on new roles|work=News Tribune|author=Lambrecht, Bill|date=2012-01-16|access-date=2016-11-02}}</ref><ref name="cbsnews1">{{cite web|last=Attkisson|first=Sharyl|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/family-ties-bind-federal-lawmakers-to-lobbyists|title=Family Ties Bind Federal Lawmakers to Lobbyists|publisher=CBS News|date=2010-06-25|access-date=2016-11-02}}</ref> Some critics have criticized Andrew's dual professional roles as both a lobbyist for firms that might benefit from
Blunt married Abigail Perlman, a lobbyist for [[Kraft Foods]]<ref name="cbsnews1"/><ref>{{cite web|url=
On August 9, 2021, Blunt was appointed an Honorary [[Officer of the Order of Australia]] (AO) "for distinguished service to Australia's bilateral relationship with the United States of America, in particular to the joint Free Trade Agreement".<ref>[https://www.gg.gov.au/sites/default/files/2021-10/202108%20honorary%20appointments%20and%20award%20in%20the%20Order%20of%20Australia.pdf 2020-S2] – Honorary Officer (AO) in the General Division (9 August 2021)</ref>
On February 14, 2023, Blunt was elected as president of The State Historical Society of Missouri where he has been a trustee
==ACU rating==
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