Charles R. Black, Jr.

Charles R. Black Jr. (born October 11, 1947) is an American lobbyist and businessman, who is the Founding Chairman of Prime Policy Group, a public affairs firm which is now a subsidiary of Burson Cohn & Wolfe. Prime Policy Group was formed with the merger of Martin B. Gold's Gold & Liebengood with the Washington, DC–based lobbying firm he co-founded—BMSK—with Paul Manafort, Roger J. Stone, and Peter G. Kelly. In 2010, Black was inducted into the American Association of Political Consultants (AAPC) Hall of Fame.

Black is a "longtime Washington lobbyist" who through 2008 "worked in every Republican presidential campaign" since 1972. In 2016, Black worked as a campaign adviser for Governor John Kasich in the 2016 presidential election.

Education 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.

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. 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."