Morton Blackwell
| Morton Blackwell | |
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Blackwell in 1981.
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| Born |
November 16, 1939 La Jara, Conejos County Colorado, USA |
| Residence | Arlington County, Virginia |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Louisiana State University |
| Occupation | Activist |
Morton C. Blackwell (born November 16, 1939, La Jara, Colorado) is an American conservative activist. He is the founder and president of the Leadership Institute (established 1979), a 501(c)3 non-profit educational foundation that teaches political technology to conservative activists. He currently serves as Virginia's national committeeman on the Republican National Committee.
In youth politics, Blackwell was a College Republican state chairman and a Young Republican state chairman in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He served on the Young Republican National Committee for more than a dozen years. He rose to the position of national vice chairman at-large of the Young Republican National Federation. Off and on for five and half years, 1965 to 1970, he worked as executive director of the College Republican National Committee under four consecutive College Republican national chairmen. For eight years, he was a member of the Louisiana Republican State Central Committee.
Blackwell worked for seven years under conservative Richard Viguerie, the specialist in direct mail.
Blackwell was first elected to the Arlington County Republican Committee in 1972. He is a member of the Republican Party of Virginia's State Central Committee. In 1988, Blackwell was elected as Virginia’s Republican National Committeeman, and was re-elected in 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016. In 2004, Blackwell was elected to the Executive Committee of the RNC.
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