Charles R. Black Jr. | |
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Born |
Wilmington, North Carolina, U.S. |
October 11, 1947
Alma mater |
University of Florida American University |
Political party | Republican |
Charles R. Black Jr. (born 1947), is the current Chairman of Prime Policy Group, a public affairs firm which is a subsidiary of Burson-Marsteller Global Public Relations. Prime Policy Group was formed with the merger of Martin B. Gold 's Gold & Liebengood with the Washington, DC-based lobbying firm he co-founded—Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly—with Paul Manafort, Roger J. Stone and Peter G. Kelly. In 2010, Black was inducted into the American Association of Political Consultants (AAPC) Hall of Fame.
Black is a "longtime Washington lobbyist" who "worked in every Republican presidential campaign" since 1972. He worked for Ronald Reagan's three Presidential campaigns in 1976, 1980 and 1984 and was a senior political adviser to the 1992 re-election campaign of George H.W. Bush. He served as chief campaign adviser for Senator John McCain in the 2008 Presidential election. In 2012, Black worked as an informal adviser to Governor Mitt Romney's Presidential campaign during the 2012 Presidential election. In 2016, Black worked as a campaign adviser for Governor John Kasich in the 2016 Presidential election.
Black earned a BA in Political Science from the University of Florida in 1969 and a JD from American University's law school in 1974.