WASHINGTON — One Baptist has replaced another as House majority leader in the wake of a Texas indictment Sept. 28 charging Rep. Tom DeLay with violations of state election laws.
Serving, at least on a temporary basis, as the new majority leader in the U.S. House is Roy D. Blunt, a Republican and member of First Baptist Church, Branson, Mo. Blunt, 55, was elected to Congress in 1996. The previous four years, he had served as president of his alma mater, Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Mo. Blunt also is a former Missouri secretary of state and is the father of Missouri’s current governor, Matt Blunt, who attends Second Baptist Church, Springfield.
DeLay is a member of Second Baptist Church, Houston, according to information provided by congressional sources for the November 2004 election.
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