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==Legislative service==

==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), both strongly supported by then Republican U.S. Senator [[John Tower]], 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/>

Blythe was elected to the House in 1970 though the top statewide Republican candidates that year, [[George Herbert Walker Bush]] and [[Paul Eggers|Paul Walter Eggers]], both strongly supported by then Republican U.S. Senator [[John Tower]], 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/|author=Morgan Smith|title=Primary Races Tend to Be Bloody|date=November 3, 2009|publisher=''The Texas Tribune''|accessdate=March 24, 2020}}</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/|author=Morgan Smith|title=Primary Races Tend to Be Bloody|date=November 3, 2009|publisher=''The Texas Tribune''|accessdate=March 24, 2020}}</ref>​