Background
Blackman, Edward Barnum was born on June 2, 1934 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States. Son of Allen and Isabella (Moddell) Blackman.
clergyman consultant real estate executive
Blackman, Edward Barnum was born on June 2, 1934 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States. Son of Allen and Isabella (Moddell) Blackman.
Bachelor, Bowdoin College, 1955. Master in Sacred Theology, Union Seminary, 1959.
Pastor Prospect Congressional Church, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1959-1961, Eliot Church of Roxbury, Boston, 1961-1966. Associate housing and education City Missionary Society, 1966-1972. Director housing services Massachusetts Department Public Welfare, 1971-1972.
Special assistant, senior management officer Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency, 1972-1981. President, chief executive officer The Housing Services Company, since 1981. Member BCIC board Boston Center Indiana Living, Citizens Housing and Planning Association.
Associate pastor Eliot Congressional Church.
Member Greater Boston Real Estate Board (government affairs committee, equal opportunity committee), Builders Association Greater Boston, National Association Real Estate Appraisers, Museum of Afro-American History (board directors), Roxbury History Park (advisory committee).
Married Nancy Bakke (divorced 1971). Children: Mark (deceased), Rachel. Married Sandra Rae Lynch.