Photograph, Dale Bumpers

 
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Photograph, Dale Bumpers
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Photograph, Dale Bumpers

Object number2015.010.15
DateSeptember 10, 1970
MediumPaper, Ink
Dimensions8 × 11 1/2 in. (20.3 × 29.2 cm)
Credit LineOld State House Museum Collection
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    DescriptionA black and white photograph of Dale and Betty Bumpers after winning the gubernatorial nomination against Orval Faubus, who came out of political retirement to seek a seventh term. The photograph was taken September 10, 1970. It is an Associated Press WirePhoto.

    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. As governor, Bumpers was able to reduce the number of agencies that reported to the governor, improve social services available to the elderly, disabled, and developmentally challenged, granted more power to the cities, repealed the “fair trade” liquor law, expended the state park system, created a prison construction program, and advocated for education reform and advancement. He died on January 1, 2016.
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