    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George H. W. Bush (1991, Book I)]
    [February 14, 1991]
    [Pages 143-144]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

    Appointment of John Kenneth Blackwell as United States Representative on
    the United Nations Commission on Human Rights
    February 14, 1991

        The President today announced his intention to appoint John Kenneth
    Blackwell, of Ohio, to be the Representative of the United States on the
    Human Rights Commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United
    Nations. He would succeed Armando Valladares.
        Currently Mr. Blackwell serves as a business and education
    consultant in Cincinnati, OH. Prior to this Mr. Blackwell served as
    Deputy Under Secretary at the Department of Housing and Urban
    Development in Washington, DC.
        Mr. Blackwell graduated from Xavier

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    University (B.S., 1970; M.E.D., 1971). He was born February 28, 1948, in
    Cincinnati, OH. Mr. Blackwell is married, has three children, and
    resides in Cincinnati, OH.