Peter Ignatius Blute[1] (born January 28, 1956) is an American former politician who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives.

As of 2024, Blute and colleague Peter G. Torkildsen remain the last Republicans elected to serve in the United States House delegation from Massachusetts.

After two terms in the House, Blute was defeated by current Congressman James P. McGovern in 1996 in a reelection bid for the 105th Congress.

[2] His tenure at MassPort came to an end following revelations of a workday "booze cruise", originally paid for with Massport funds and billed as a "survey" of Boston Harbor, during which a female passenger, actress Gidget Churchill, aboard the vessel with Blute exposed her breasts to a Boston Herald photographer.

[7] Blute's grandfather, Paul H. Hines, served as state representative and as an aide to Mayor John Hynes.