David Blount
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"David Blount" is a Democratic Party (United States)/Democratic member of the Mississippi Senate, representing the 29th District since 2008. His present term of office is to end in 2016.

Prior to being a state senator, he was employed at the office of the Secretary of State of Mississippi. (Eric Clark was then the Secretary of State.) In 2008, 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 of Terry. Blount was re-elected in 2011 with 69 percent of the vote over a Republican opponent.

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