Donald Blythe (16 September 1954-) was a United States Representative. He was entrusted by the then-newly-elected President Garrett Walker to lead the administration's push on an education reform bill until its first draft was leaked. He later formed his own progressive caucus within Congress which held goals to keep the party liberal. However, he was eventually appointed Vice-President of the United States by Frank Underwood when he became President.
Biography[]
Donald Blythe was born in 1954, and he joined the US Democratic Party, rising to become their representative for New Hampshire. He was respected and served in the House of Representatives for several years, and President Garrett Walker looked to him to assist in forming his administrations policy on education. Blythe's focus was on education for much of his career, but he was a classic tax-and-spend Democrat and a way-left-of-center liberal. In January 2013 he came up with an education reform bill that was described as being "one step left of Karl Marx's ideas" and Congressman Frank Underwood pretended to shred it up when Blythe presented it to him; Underwood had been entrusted with overseeing Blythe by Chief-of-Staff Linda Vasquez. However, Underwood secretly kept the bill and gave it to his newspaper contact Zoe Barnes, telling her to publish it to engineer Blythe's bow out of the limelight. The bill was published by the Washington Herald, and its far-left ideas caused controversy against Blythe. At the same time as the bill's release, Underwood secretly had a group of six young men develop a new bill. Blythe, unaware of Underwood's involvement in the leak of the newspaper, decided to shift the responsibility to Underwood rather than make others take the fall for him. When interviewed by the media, he said that he would leave the bill in Underwood's capable hands.