Allen Wade Kerr | |
|---|---|
| Member of the ArkansasHouseofRepresentatives from the 32nd district | |
| In office January 2009 –January 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Sid Rosenbaum |
| Succeeded by | Jim Sorvillo |
| Personal details | |
| Born | November 19, 1956 Little Rock, Arkansas, USA |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Marliese Lea Estes Kerr |
| Children | Four children |
| Residence | Little Rock, Arkansas |
| Alma mater | Jacksonville High School University of Arkansas at Little Rock |
| Occupation | Insurance agent |
Allen Wade Kerr (born November 19, 1956) [1] is an insurance agency owner in his native Little Rock, Arkansas, who was from 2009 to 2015 a Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from District 32, which includes part of Pulaski County. In his third term in office, [2] Kerr was term-limited in the election of 2014 and succeeded by his fellow Republican Jim Sorvillo.
Little Rock is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Arkansas. As the county seat of Pulaski County, the city was incorporated on November 7, 1831, on the south bank of the Arkansas River close to the state's geographic center. The city derives its name from a rock formation along the river, named the "Little Rock" by the French explorer Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe in the 1720s. The capital of the Arkansas Territory was moved to Little Rock from Arkansas Post in 1821. The city's population was 198,541 in 2016 according to the United States Census Bureau. The six-county Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) is ranked 78th in terms of population in the United States with 738,344 residents according to the 2017 estimate by the United States Census Bureau.
Arkansas is a state in the southern region of the United States, home to over 3 million people as of 2018. Its name is of Siouan derivation from the language of the Osage denoting their related kin, the Quapaw Indians. The state's diverse geography ranges from the mountainous regions of the Ozark and the Ouachita Mountains, which make up the U.S. Interior Highlands, to the densely forested land in the south known as the Arkansas Timberlands, to the eastern lowlands along the Mississippi River and the Arkansas Delta.
The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP, is one of the two major political parties in the United States; the other is its historic rival, the Democratic Party.
Governor Asa Hutchinson in 2015 appointed Kerr as the Arkansas Insurance Commissioner.
William Asa Hutchinson II is an American businessman, attorney, and politician, serving as the 46th Governor of Arkansas since 2015. Previously he was U.S. Attorney for the Fort Smith-based Western District of Arkansas, U.S. Congressman from the Third District of Arkansas, Administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and the first Undersecretary for Border & Transportation Security at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
First elected without opposition to the state House in 2008 to succeed fellow Republican Sid Rosenbaum, [3] Kerr serves on the joint committees of Legislative Auditing and Public Retirement & Social Security Programs, of which he is the chairman. He is a member too of the State Agencies and Governmental Affairs Committee and the Revenue and Taxation Committee. [2]
A joint committee is a committee made up of members of both chambers of a bicameral legislature. In other contexts, it refers to a committee with members from more than one organization.
Kerr had a conservative voting record in the state House. He voted to override the vetoes of Democratic Governor Mike Beebe to enact legislation requiring photo identification for casting a ballot in Arkansas and to ban abortion after twenty weeks of gestation or whenever fetal heartbeat is felt. He voted to prohibit abortion from being included on the state health insurance exchange. He supported allowing the monthly sale of up to five hundred gallons of unpasteurized whole milk directly to consumers from the farm. Kerr voted against approved legislation to make the office of county prosecutor in Arkansas nonpartisan. He co-sponsored legislation to allow handguns on church properties and to empower university officials to carry weapons in the name of campus safety. [4]
A veto is the power to unilaterally stop an official action, especially the enactment of legislation. A veto can be absolute, as for instance in the United Nations Security Council, whose permanent members can block any resolution, or it can be limited, as in the legislative process of the United States, where a two-thirds vote in both the House and Senate will override a Presidential veto of legislation. A veto may give power only to stop changes, like the US legislative veto, or to also adopt them, like the legislative veto of the Indian President, which allows him to propose amendments to bills returned to the Parliament for reconsideration.
The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with its rival, the Republican Party. Tracing its heritage back to Thomas Jefferson and James Madison's Democratic-Republican Party, the modern-day Democratic Party was founded around 1828 by supporters of Andrew Jackson, making it the world's oldest active political party.
Mickey Dale Beebe is an American politician and attorney who served as the 45th Governor of Arkansas from 2007 to 2015.
Kerr graduated from Jacksonville High School in Jacksonville in Pulaski County and attended the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He is an award-winning agent with Farmers Insurance. He is a former member of the Pulaski County Quorum Court, akin to the county commission in most other states. He and his wife, the former Marliese Lea Estes (born 1965), are members of the United Methodist Church. The couple has two sons and two daughters. [2]
Jacksonville High School (JHS) is a secondary public school located in Jacksonville, Arkansas for students in grades nine through twelve. JHS serves students in the Jacksonville and McAlmont communities and is administered by the Jacksonville North Pulaski School District (JNPSD). In 2007, Jacksonville requested to become separated from the PCSSD and form its own school district, but a final decision has not been made on that request.
Jacksonville is a city in Pulaski County, Arkansas, United States, and a suburb of Little Rock. As of the 2010 census, the population of the city was 28,364. It is part of the Little Rock–North Little Rock–Conway Metropolitan Statistical Area with 729,135 people as of 2014.
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock is a metropolitan public research university located in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States. Established as Little Rock Junior College by the Little Rock School District in 1927, the institution became a private four-year university under the name Little Rock University in 1957. It returned to public status in 1969 when it merged with the University of Arkansas System under its present name. The former campus of Little Rock Junior College is now (2019) the campus of Philander Smith College.
In the Republican primary held on May 20, 2014, Jim Sorvillo defeated intraparty rival Pat Hays, 54-46 percent, for the party's nomination to succeed Kerr. [5]
James Joseph Sorvillo, known as Jim Sorvillo, is an advertising agent from the capital city of Little Rock, Arkansas, who is a Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives for District 32 in a portion of Pulaski County. He was elected to his third term in hs legislative seat in the general election held on November 6, 2018. With 7,126 votes, he defeated the Democrat Jess Mallett, who polled 6,320.
