Mark Lunsford Pryor is an American attorney,politician and lobbyist who served as a United States Senator from Arkansas from 2003 to 2015. He previously served as Attorney General of Arkansas from 1999 to 2003 and in the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1991 to 1995. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Frank Durward White was an American banker and politician who served as the 41st governor of Arkansas. He served a single two-year term from 1981 to 1983.
James Guy Tucker Jr. is an American former politician,businessman,and attorney who served as the 43rd governor of Arkansas from 1992 until his resignation in 1996 after his conviction for fraud during the Whitewater affair. A member of the Democratic Party,he previously served as the 15th lieutenant governor,state attorney general,and as a U.S. representative.
Dale Leon Bumpers was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 38th Governor of Arkansas (1971–1975) and in the United States Senate (1975–1999). He was a member of the Democratic Party. He was counsel at the Washington office of law firm Arent Fox LLP,where his clients included Riceland Foods and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
David Hampton Pryor was an American politician who served as a representative for Arkansas's 4th congressional district from 1966 until 1973 and as a senator from Arkansas from 1979 until 1997. A member of the Democratic Party,Pryor also served as the 39th Governor of Arkansas from 1975 to 1979 and was a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1960 to 1966. He served as the acting chairman of the Arkansas Democratic Party from 2008 to 2009,following Bill Gwatney's assassination.
Carl Edward Bailey was an American attorney and the 31st governor of Arkansas from 1937 to 1941.
Thomas Dale Alford Sr. was an American ophthalmologist and politician from the U.S. state of Arkansas who served as a conservative Democrat in the United States House of Representatives from Little Rock from 1959 to 1963.
Young Timothy Hutchinson is an American politician,lobbyist,and former United States senator from the state of Arkansas. A Republican,he was the first Republican U.S. senator to represent Arkansas since the reconstruction era.
Tommy Franklin Robinson was an American businessman,lobbyist,and politician who served as the U.S. representative for Arkansas's 2nd congressional district from 1985 to 1991. He was a member of the Republican Party. Before he was elected to Congress,Robinson was the sheriff of Pulaski County.
Kaneaster Hodges Jr. was an American politician who served as a United States senator from Arkansas from 1977 to 1979. Hodges was appointed to the Senate to serve the remainder of Senator John L. McClellan's term after he died in 1977.
The Democratic Party of Arkansas is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the state of Arkansas. The current party chair is Grant Tennille. Former U.S. president Bill Clinton was born in Arkansas,and served as state governor from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1992.
John Timothy Griffin is an American lawyer and politician serving as the 57th attorney general of Arkansas. He previously served as the 20th lieutenant governor of Arkansas,from 2015 to 2023. A member of the Republican Party,he previously was the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas between 2006 and 2007 and U.S. Representative for Arkansas's 2nd congressional district from 2011 to 2015.
The 2008 United States Senate election in Arkansas was held on November 4,2008. Incumbent Senator Mark Pryor ran for a second term. No Republican filed to challenge him,and his only opponent was Green Party candidate Rebekah Kennedy. Pryor won re-election with almost 80% of the vote.
Winston Bryant is an American politician and attorney who served as the Secretary of State of Arkansas (1977–1978),the 14th Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas (1981–1991) and Arkansas Attorney General (1991–1999).
Aylmer Lynn Lowe,known as A. Lynn Lowe,was an American businessman and politician from Garland near Texarkana in Miller County in southwestern Arkansas,who was a major figure in the Arkansas Republican Party. He was the Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1978 against the Democrat Bill Clinton,served as state party chairman from 1974 to 1980,and was the GOP candidate in Arkansas's 4th congressional district in 1966,having been defeated by the Democrat David Pryor,then a state representative and a future governor and U.S. Senator,originally from Camden in Ouachita County in south Arkansas.
The 1996 United States Senate election in Arkansas was held on November 5,1996. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator David Pryor decided to retire. Republican Tim Hutchinson won the open seat,becoming the first Republican to win a U.S. Senate seat in Arkansas since Reconstruction in 1872 and the first to ever be popularly elected in the state. He was the first to win this seat since 1870. Hutchinson lost re-election in 2002 to David Pryor's son Mark Pryor.
Michael John Lamoureux is a lawyer,lobbyist,and former Republican politician from Russellville,Arkansas. He served in the Arkansas General Assembly for over ten years before resigning to serve as chief of staff to Governor Asa Hutchinson. In 2016,Lamoureux resigned and joined a lobbying firm.
The State government of Arkansas is divided into three branches:executive,legislative and judicial. These consist of the state governor's office,a bicameral state legislature known as the Arkansas General Assembly,and a state court system. The Arkansas Constitution delineates the structure and function of the state government. Since 1963,Arkansas has had four seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. Like all other states,it has two seats in the U.S. Senate.
James Ray Caldwell,known as Jim R. Caldwell,is a retired Church of Christ minister in Tulsa,Oklahoma,who was a Republican member of the Arkansas State Senate from 1969 to 1978,the first member of his party to sit in the legislative upper chamber in the 20th century. His first two years as a senator corresponded with the second two-year term of Winthrop Rockefeller,the first Republican governor of Arkansas since Reconstruction. Caldwell was closely allied with Rockefeller during the 1969-1970 legislative sessions.
The 1972 United States Senate election in Arkansas took place on November 7,1972. Incumbent U.S. Senator John L. McClellan was re-elected to a sixth term in office,defeating U.S. Representative David Pryor in a hotly contested primary. In the general election,McClellan easily defeated Republican physician Wayne Babbitt. This was McClellan's final campaign;he died in his sleep in 1977. Pryor was elected Governor of Arkansas in 1974 and won the race to succeed McClellan in 1978.
