Early Life
Timothy Bledsoe was born on June 18, 1953, in Lake Village, Arkansas. He graduated from Lakeside High School in Lake Village in 1971. He received a B.A. in Political Science from Louisiana State University in 1976. In 1978, he received an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Arkansas. He received a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Nebraska in 1984.
After receiving his Ph.D., Bledsoe began teaching political science at the University of South Carolina, where he taught until 1989. In 1989, Bledsoe moved to Grosse Pointe, Michigan and took a job teaching at Wayne State University, where he taught until elected to the State House in 2008. Bledsoe has written several books on the study of urban politics, including Careers in City Politics, and Urban Reform and its Consequences. He is married to Dr. Mary Herring, also a professor at Wayne State. They have one daughter, named Daisy, and are members of Christ Church Grosse Pointe in Grosse Pointe Farms.
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