Photograph, Dale and Betty Bumpers

 
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photo of Dale & Betty Bumpers
Photograph, Dale and Betty Bumpers
photo of Dale & Betty Bumpers
photo of Dale & Betty Bumpers

Photograph, Dale and Betty Bumpers

Object number1999.001.07
Date1972
OriginLittle Rock, Arkansas
MediumPaper, Ink
Dimensions7 x 5 in. (17.8 x 12.7 cm)
Credit LineOld State House Museum Collection
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    DescriptionA photograph of Dale and Betty Bumpers taken at the Governor's Mansion dated to 1972. Dale is wearing a suit and tie standing in front of a piano. Betty is wearing a suite and is sitting down next to her husband. A flower arrangement is on top of the piano.

    Dale Leon Bumpers was born on August 12, 1925 in Charleston, Arkansas. He married longtime girlfriend Betty Lou Flanagan on September 4, 1949. In 1970, Bumpers ran for Governor of Arkansas and won, becoming the thirty-eighth governor of Arkansas. He was reelected in 1972 and died on January 1, 2016.
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