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Line 36: − + + + + − ==Legislative service== − − Blythe was elected to the House in 1970 though the top statewide Republican candidates that year, [[George Herbert Walker Bush]] and [[Paul Eggers]] lost their races for the [[U.S. Senate]] and [[governor]] of Texas, respectively, to [[Lloyd Bentsen|Lloyd Millard Bentsen, Jr.]], of Houston and [[Preston Smith]] of [[Lubbock]]. As a House member, Blythe authored legislation creating the Texas State Pension Review Board. He served on the pension board 1979 to 1991. He also wrote the Texas Crime Victims Act and the law establishing the Harris-[[Galveston, Texas|Galveston]] Subsidence District. He cdo-authored revisions to the Texas Mass Transit Authority Act for the Houston and San Antonio metropolitan areas. He was a founding member and for fourteen years, he was the executive director of the Texas Association of Public Employee Retirement Systems. Blythe is a director of the Texas Hedge Fund Association, established in 2002. He is a founding member of the National Society of Pension Professionals.<ref name=blythe/> − +
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In 1962, Blythe joined his father, who retired that year from the Army, in the establishment in Austin of the former William Blythe Advertising and Public Relations Company.<ref name=obit/> With more than four decades in the real estate business, Blythe was as of 2011 an associate with Martha Turner Properties. His experience includes commercial and residential sales, building, and developing within the Houston Metropolitan Area.<ref name=blythe/>
In 1962, Blythe joined his father, who retired that year from the Army, in the establishment in Austin of the former William Blythe Advertising and Public Relations Company.<ref name=obit/> With more than four decades in the real estate business, Blythe was as of 2011 an associate with Martha Turner Properties. His experience includes commercial and residential sales, building, and developing within the Houston Metropolitan Area.<ref name=blythe/>
From his first marriage to the former Charlene Cotton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Cotton of New Waverly, also in Walker County, Texas, Blythe has two daughters, Alison Robinson Blythe and Ashley Chastain Blythe Zachry, son-in-law, Josh Zachry, and grandson, Davis Blythe Zachry. After his divorce, Blythe married Adell M. "Dell" Blythe and acquired a stepdaughter, Paige Griffin.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://itemonline.com/weddings/x212531071/10-15-Blythe-Zachry-Wedding?keyword=topstory|title=Blythe Zachry Wedding|publisher=''Huntsville (Texas) Item''|date=October 13, 2006|accessdate=September 23, 2011; article no longer on-line}}</ref> Blythe is a member of the associate vestry at St. John the Divine[[ Episcopal Church]] in Houston.<ref name=blythe>{{cite web|url=http://www.spoke.com/info/pFZG0ax/WilliamBlythe|title=William Blythe|publisher=spoke.com|accessdate=September 23, 2011}}</ref>
From his first marriage to the former Charlene Cotton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Cotton of New Waverly, also in Walker County, Texas, Blythe has two daughters, Alison Robinson Blythe and Ashley Chastain Blythe Zachry, son-in-law, Josh Zachry, and grandson, Davis Blythe Zachry. After his divorce, Blythe married Adell M. "Dell" Blythe and acquired a stepdaughter, Paige Griffin.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://itemonline.com/weddings/x212531071/10-15-Blythe-Zachry-Wedding?keyword=topstory|title=Blythe Zachry Wedding|publisher=''Huntsville (Texas) Item''|date=October 13, 2006|accessdate=September 23, 2011; article no longer on-line}}</ref> Blythe is a member of the associate vestry at St. John the Divine[[ Episcopal Church]] in Houston.<ref name=blythe>{{cite web|url=http://www.spoke.com/info/pFZG0ax/WilliamBlythe|title=William Blythe|publisher=spoke.com|accessdate=September 23, 2011}}</ref>
==Legislative service==
Blythe was elected to the House in 1970 though the top statewide Republican candidates that year, [[George Herbert Walker Bush]] and Paul Walter Eggers (1919-2013) lost their races for the [[U.S. Senate]] and [[governor]] of Texas, respectively, to [[Lloyd Bentsen|Lloyd Millard Bentsen, Jr.]], of Houston and [[Preston Smith]] of [[Lubbock]]. As a House member, Blythe authored legislation creating the Texas State Pension Review Board. He served on the pension board 1979 to 1991. He also wrote the Texas Crime Victims Act and the law establishing the Harris-[[Galveston, Texas|Galveston]] Subsidence District. He cdo-authored revisions to the Texas Mass Transit Authority Act for the Houston and San Antonio metropolitan areas. He was a founding member and for fourteen years, he was the executive director of the Texas Association of Public Employee Retirement Systems. Blythe is a director of the Texas Hedge Fund Association, established in 2002. He is a founding member of the National Society of Pension Professionals.<ref name=blythe/>
In 1982, Blythe ran unsuccessfully in the Republican [[primary]] against freshman state Senator [[J. E. "Buster" Brown]], then of Lake Jackson in suburban Houston and now a lobbyist in Austin.. Reflecting on that campaign, Brown said that the two disagreed on few issues but that the race became personally divisive.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.texastribune.org/texas-politics/2010-texas-governors-race/primary-races-tend-to-be-bloody/|title=Morgan Smith, "Primary Races Tend to Be Bloody," November 3, 2009|publisher=''The Texas Tribune''|accessdate=September 19, 2011}}</ref>
In 1982, Blythe ran unsuccessfully in the Republican [[primary]] against freshman state Senator [[J. E. "Buster" Brown]], then of Lake Jackson in suburban Houston and now a lobbyist in Austin.. Reflecting on that campaign, Brown said that the two disagreed on few issues but that the race became personally divisive.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.texastribune.org/texas-politics/2010-texas-governors-race/primary-races-tend-to-be-bloody/|title=Morgan Smith, "Primary Races Tend to Be Bloody," November 3, 2009|publisher=''The Texas Tribune''|accessdate=September 19, 2011}}</ref>
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