Kevin Blaum

Kevin J. Blaum (born June 4, 1952, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) is a former American politician who was a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from Wilkes-Barre and the surrounding area for nearly three decades.

Biography Blaum is a 1970 graduate of James M. Coughlin High School. He earned a degree in Education and Political Science from the University of Scranton in 1974. He retired shortly after the 2006 election and announced his retirement in December 2005 at the arena, indicating to those gathered that he wanted the construction of the arena to define his legacy.

After retirement, Blaum served as an associate director of admission and the director of financial aid at Wyoming Seminary in Kingston, Pennsylvania until his retirement in the early 2010s. From 2008 to 2013, he wrote a weekly opinion column for Times Leader newspaper entitled "In the Arena."