[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.