Irma Hunter Brown

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Irma Hunter Brown
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Nationality Tampa, Florida
Alma mater Memphis State University

Irma Hunter Brown is an American politician in Arkansas. She was a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1981 to 1998 and a member of the Arkansas Senate from 2003 to 2008. She was the first African American woman to be an Arkansas legislator. [1] [2] Her photograph was included in a composite with other House members. [3]

She is a native of Tampa, Florida. She attended Shorter Junior College and graduated magna cum laude from Arkansas AM&N (now the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff). She also attended Memphis State University and D.C. Teachers College. She served in the Arkansas House from 1980-1998. She was elected to the Arkansas Senate in 2002 and served in it for six years. [4]

References

  1. ↑ "Senator Irma Hunter Brown - Arkansas State Legislature". www.arkleg.state.ar.us. Retrieved May 2, 2021.
  2. ↑ "Remembering Early African-American Arkansas Legislators : Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson".[ permanent dead link ]
  3. ↑ Herbst, John (December 31, 1993). "1993 House of Representatives composite photo of the Seventy-Ninth General Assembly of the State of Arkansas". Arkansas General Assembly Composite Images, 1866-2011.
  4. ↑ "Minorities in the Senate – Arkansas Senate".


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