Later Years
In 1973, Blount returned to Blount International, Inc., having become its president once again in 1974. From 1981 to 1984 Blount, Inc., built the King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
In 1980, Blount served as national chairman of the Texan John Connally's unsuccessful primary campaign, with the nomination being won by Ronald W. Reagan of California.
In 1996, the Greenwich Publishing Group published his autobiography called Doing It My Way, which he had co-written with Richard Blodgett.
In 1999, Blount International, Inc., was sold to Lehman Brothers company for $1.35 billion.
Blount died in Highlands, North Carolina, at the age of eighty-one.
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