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'''Randall Scott Blair''', known as '''Randy Blair ''' (July 8, 1960<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/randy-blair/randyb6424t|title=Randy Blair|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=January 27, 2019}}</ref>&ndash; January 19, 2019), was an [[accountant]] in [[Laredo]], [[Texas]], who from 2008 to 2018 was the chairman of the Webb County [[Republican Party]].  At the time of his death from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Blair, an active [[Roman Catholic]], was president-electfor Washington’s Birthday Celebration Association. When stricken with the cancer five months earlier, he resigned as the GOP chairman, but the Washington Birthday trustees refused to accept his resignation, and he retained the title "president-elect" of the association though he could do nothing in the last few months of his life for the 2019 WBCA.<ref name=obit/>

'''Randall Scott Blair''', known as '''Randy Blair ''' (July 8, 1960<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/randy-blair/randyb6424t|title=Randy Blair|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=January 27, 2019}}</ref>&ndash; January 19, 2019), was an [[accountant]] in [[Laredo]], [[Texas]], who from 2008 to 2018 was the chairman of the Webb County [[Republican Party]].  At the time of his death from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Blair, an active [[Roman Catholic]], was president-electfor Washington’s Birthday Celebration Association. When stricken with the cancer five months earlier, he resigned as the GOP chairman, but the Washington Birthday trustees refused to accept his resignation, and he retained the title "president-elect" of the association though he could do nothing in the last few months of his life for the 2019 WBCA.<ref name=obit/>

Blair was one of three children of Mary Patricia "Pat" Blair (born October 16, 1931) and [[United States Army]] major, Elliott Blair, Sr. (1929-2013), who was the [[mayor]] from 1976 to 1981 and then 1990 to 1991 of Killeen<ref>{{cite web|url=https://wilcfry.com/killeen/history/mayors/|title=Killeen Mayors|publisher=Wilcfry.com|accessdate=January 27, 2019}}</ref> in Bell County in Central Texas, the site of the Fort Hood military post. He has a brother, Elliott Blair, Jr., and a sister, Kellie Ann Bacon. In his youth Blair was an [[Eagle Scout]] and continued in adulthood to support that organization. He graduated in 1982 with a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from [[Texas A&M University]] in College Station and came thereafter to Laredo to work in business. He and his wife of thirty-twoyears, the former Nancy Barbara Stewart (born November 15, 1955) owned Blair & Blair PC accounting firm. Their son, Roger Andrew Blair (born October 6, 1990), resides in [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], Texas. On her husband's passing, Mrs. Blair said that she felt "a great loss, we did everythingtogether. We were partners in marriage and business and many of the organizations we served in the community. I lost my better half."<ref name=obit>cite web|url=https://www.lmtonline.com/local/article/Randy-Blair-dies-at-age-58-13559360.php|title=Randy Blairdies at age 58|publisher=''The Laredo Morning Times''|author=Lisa Dreher|accessdate=January 27, 2019}}</ref>

Blair was one of three children of Mary Patricia "Pat" Blair (born October 16, 1931) and [[United States Army]] major, Elliott Blair, Sr. (1929-2013), who was the [[mayor]] from 1976 to 1981 and then 1990 to 1991 of Killeen<ref>{{cite web|url=https://wilcfry.com/killeen/history/mayors/|title=Killeen Mayors|publisher=Wilcfry.com|accessdate=January 27, 2019}}</ref> in Bell County in Central Texas, the site of the Fort Hood military post. He has a brother, Elliott Blair, Jr., and a sister, Kellie Ann Bacon. In his youth Blair was an [[Eagle Scout]] and continued in adulthood to support that organization. He graduated in 1982 with a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from [[Texas A&M University]] in College Station and came thereafter to Laredo to work in business. He and his wife of thirty-twoyears, the former Nancy Barbara Stewart (born November 15, 1955) owned Blair & Blair PC accounting firm. Their son, Roger Andrew Blair (born October 6, 1990), resides in [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], Texas. On her husband's passing, Mrs. Blair said that she felt "a great loss, we did everythingtogether. We were partners in marriage and business and many of the organizations we served in the community. I lost my better half."<ref name=obit>cite web|url=https://www.lmtonline.com/local/article/Randy-Blair-dies-at-age-58-13559360.php|title=Randy Blair dies at age 58|publisher=''The Laredo Morning Times''|author=Lisa Dreher|accessdate=January 27, 2019}}</ref>

During his decade as GOP chairman, which ended on September 12, 2018, amid state and national elections, Blair worked to mobilize the party in Laredo and to connect with others across the aisle. But the  Laredo GOP had little success, having rarely even offered Republican candidates at the local level and losing all races, locally, state, and national.  In the last [[United States Senate]] election, the Republican incumbent, [[Ted Cruz]] polled 28.2 percent of the ballots cast in Webb County in his otherwise successful race against the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[Beto O'Rourke]] of [[El Paso]]. [[Governor]] Gregg Abbott]] polled  33.7 percent of the vote in his statewide victory over the Democrat [[Lupe Valdez]], a former [[sheriff]] of Dallas County.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://elections.sos.state.tx.us/elchist331_race832.htm|title=Webb County U.S. Senate and gubernatorial election returns,2018|publisher=Texas Secretary of State|accessdate=January 27, 2019}}</ref>

During his decade as GOP chairman, which ended on September 12, 2018, amid state and national elections, Blair worked to mobilize the party in Laredo and to connect with others across the aisle. But the  Laredo GOP had little success, having rarely even offered Republican candidates at the local level and losing all races, locally, state, and national.  In the last [[United States Senate]] election, the Republican incumbent, [[Ted Cruz]] polled 28.2 percent of the ballots cast in Webb County in his otherwise successful race against the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[Beto O'Rourke]] of [[El Paso]]. [[Governor]] Gregg Abbott]] polled  33.7 percent of the vote in his statewide victory over the Democrat [[Lupe Valdez]], a former [[sheriff]] of Dallas County.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://elections.sos.state.tx.us/elchist331_race832.htm|title=Webb County U.S. Senate and gubernatorial election returns,2018|publisher=Texas Secretary of State|accessdate=January 27, 2019}}</ref>