Next month, a Greybull saddlemaker will participate in the fourth annual “Made in America” product showcase at the White House.
J. L. Blair Saddlery is among a host of businesses …
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Next month, a Greybull saddlemaker will participate in the fourth annual “Made in America” product showcase at the White House.
J. L. Blair Saddlery is among a host of businesses from across the country that will be featured at the Oct. 5 event in Washington, D.C.
“Over the past four years, President Trump has proudly championed products made right here in the USA,” Special Assistant to the President John Horstman said in a statement. “Now more than ever, it is vital to support and promote American businesses, American workers, and American-made products.”
John L. Blair is a Wyoming native and a second-generation saddlemaker, who studied under his father, Neal L. Blair and Tony Holmes. Blair has shown his work around the country and world and built saddles for folks ranging from horse people to Western actor Slim Pickens; he’s won multiple honors for his craftsmanship along the way.
Blair said he plans to showcase his saddlery’s custom-made leather goods at next month’s “Made in America” event.
American-made products featured at the 2019 showcase ranged from bottle openers from Missouri to bicycles from Tennessee to LockHeed Martin’s Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense system.
“The philosophy of my administration is simple: If we can build it, grow it, or make it in the United States, we will,” President Donald Trump said in 2019. “When we choose American-made, something truly wonderful happens: Our communities thrive and flourish, our neighborhoods bustle with commerce, our children dream bigger and bolder, and the bonds of loyalty that unite us as citizens become closer, richer, and deeper than ever before.”