How many professional government calligraphers?

March 2, 2018 12:35 AM

I was reading the news and saw this snarky headline: "The White House chief calligrapher has a higher clearance than Jared Kushner," I thought "there's a White House chief calligrapher?*" and Google led me to the White House Graphics and Calligraphy Office. Which leads me to my question: How many other government calligraphers are there? Do the Senate and House have some, state and local offices, Governors? How can I find out? *The White House chief calligrapher is the award winning Pat Blair.
posted by Marky to Law & Government (1 answer total)

Here in the UK the government has one, and he even has his own Wikipedia page. The setup here is a bit different because of the royal family and the surviving functions which, for official purposes, are exercised by the crown, so he works for something called the Crown Office rather than for No 10. But he does much the same thing as Pat Blair.
posted by greycap at 8:18 AM on March 2, 2018