Photograph, Dale & Betty Bumpers

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

Photograph, Dale & Betty Bumpers

Object number1999.001.35
MediumPaper
Dimensions8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Credit LineOld State House Museum Collection
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    DescriptionDale and Betty Bumpers standing next to the American Revolution Bicentennial flag. The flag reads, “American Revolution Bicentennial 1776-1976." Dale and Betty are standing to the left of the flag.

    Dale Leon Bumpers was born on August 12, 1925 in Charleston, Arkansas. He married longtime girlfriend Betty Lou Flanagan on September 4, 1949. He was the thirty-eighth governor of Arkansas serving from 1971 to 1975. He went on to serve in the U.S. Senate from 1975 to 1998. He went on to serve as Director of the Center for Defense Information, and he joined the Arent Fox Kinter Plotkin & Kahn law firm in Washington, D.C in 2000. Bumpers retired in 2008 and moved to Little Rock. He died on January 1, 2016.
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