Photograph, Dale and Betty Bumpers

 
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Photograph, Dale and Betty Bumpers
Bumpers photo
Bumpers photo

Photograph, Dale and Betty Bumpers

Object number1999.001.36
OriginLittle Rock, Arkansas
MediumPaper
Dimensions8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Credit LineOld State House Museum Collection
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    DescriptionPhotograph of Dale and Betty Bumpers with what appears to be the Governor's Mansion staff. Dale and Betty are on the far left. Dale is standing on the floor and Betty is on the first step. Dale is wearing a suit and tie, and Betty is wearing a skirt, button down shirt, pearl earrings and necklace.

    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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