Don Blankenship, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American businessman
Date of Birth: 14-Mar-1950
Place of Birth: Stopover, Kentucky, United States
Profession: business magnate
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
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About Don Blankenship
- Donald Leon Blankenship (born March 14, 1950) is an American business executive and was candidate for the United States Senate in West Virginia in 2018.
- He was Chairman and CEO of the Massey Energy Company—the sixth largest coal company (by 2008 production) in the United States—from 2000 until his retirement in 2010.
- On December 3, 2015, Blankenship was found guilty of one misdemeanor charge of conspiring to willfully violate mine safety and health standards in relation to the Upper Big Branch Mine explosion.
- On August 14, 2018, Blankenship's campaign for Senate made a statement outlining claims that the US Department of Justice's "Office of Professional Responsibility" has found that the prosecutors who worked to convict Blankenship "failed to disclose sixty-one memoranda of witness interviews ..." and thus committed "reckless" "professional misconduct."In April 2016, Blankenship was sentenced to one year in prison and fined $250,000, and reported to FCI Taft the next month.
- He was released from prison on May 10, 2017.Blankenship continues to claim his innocence, and has started to participate actively in local and state politics, after years of participating as a donor in his home state of West Virginia.
- He has frequently spoken out about politics, the environment, unions, and coal production.
- In 2018, Blankenship lost a three-way Republican primary for the U.S.
- Senate to Patrick Morrisey.
- Citing false information, dirty politics and a personal unwillingness to quit, Blankenship attempted to run as the Constitution Party nominee but was unable to get on the ballot and later endorsed the Republican nominee.Blankenship launched his campaign in the 2020 United States presidential election as a member of the Constitution Party on October 31, 2019.
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