Matt Blunt [SEP] educated at
accepted into the United States Naval Academy, where he received a bachelor's degree in history in 1993.
Blunt and his wife Melanie were married in May 1997. The couple has two sons, William Branch Blunt, born on March 9, 2005, and Brooks Anderson Blunt, born on January 1, 2010. Blunt is a member of the State Historical Society of Missouri, the American Legion, and the Missouri Farm Bureau.
Naval career.
As an officer in the United States Navy, Blunt served as
father of U.S. Senator from Missouri and former U.S. Representative Roy Blunt. Roy's son, Matt Blunt, is a former Governor of Missouri. In his first race in 1978, he beat out Betty Anne McCaskill, mother of future Senator Claire McCaskill, who would later unsuccessfully run against Matt Blunt in 2004, and serve with Roy in Senate from 2011 to 2019. He lived on a farm near Marshfield, Missouri. Blunt died on March 21, 2016, at Marshfield Care Center in Marshfield, Missouri.