Charles R. Black Jr.

Black earned a BA in Political Science from the University of Florida in 1969 and a JD from American University's school of law in 1974. ==Political campaigns==

Black says that he fell in love with politics when he worked on the presidential campaign of Republican Barry Goldwater as a high school student in 1964. In 1972, he was a campaign worker in the first senatorial campaign of Jesse Helms running against Nick Galifianakis. Black co-founded the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC) with Terry Dolan and Roger Stone. During the 2016 presidential election Black was Governor John Kasich's campaign advisor. == Lobbying activity ==

In 1980 he co-founded the Washington, DC–based lobbying firm Black, Manafort and Stone with principals Paul Manafort, and Roger Stone. In 1984, Peter Kelly joined the firm and the name became BMSK. The firm became one of "Washington's most influential" and merged to form BKSH & Associates Worldwide in 1996. In a 2008 interview with The Atlantic, Black defended BMSK against campaign ads made by MoveOn.org opposing John McCain. The ads asserted that Black "made millions lobbying for the world's worst tyrants". Black described how his lobbying firm "ran every potential foreign client by the State Department and/or the White House in whatever administration was in power and asked whether the scope of the work fit with American foreign policy goals." ==References==