David Blount (born July 19, 1967) is a
Democratic member of the
Mississippi Senate
The Mississippi Senate is the upper house of the Mississippi Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Mississippi. The Senate, along with the lower Mississippi House of Representatives, convenes at the Mississippi State Capitol i ...
, representing the 29th District since 2008. His present term of office will end in 2028. He is Vice Chairman of the Senate Democratic Caucus.
Prior to being a state senator, he was employed at the office of the
Secretary of State of Mississippi
The Mississippi Secretary of State is an officer of Mississippi originally established under the Article IV, §14 of Mississippi Constitution of 1817, and was reestablished under Article V, §133 of the Mississippi Constitution of 1890.
Several ...
under Eric Clark, the Secretary of State. In 2007, he defeated two other Democratic opponents to win the Democratic nomination for Senate seat #29 in Hinds County. He went on to defeat the incumbent senator, Richard White. Blount was re-elected in 2011 with 69 percent of the vote over a Republican opponent, and again in 2015 with 79 percent of the vote. He was re-elected in 2019.
References
External links
Mississippi State Senate - David Blountofficial government website
Project Vote Smart - Senator David Blount (MS)profile
*''Follow the Money'' - David Blount
2007campaign contributions
Democratic Party Mississippi state senators
1967 births
Living people
Politicians from Jackson, Mississippi
Davidson College alumni
University of Virginia alumni
21st-century American legislators
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