Photograph, Governor Dale Bumpers Inauguration

 
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Photograph, Governor Dale Bumpers Inauguration
Bumpers photo
Bumpers photo

Photograph, Governor Dale Bumpers Inauguration

Object number2001.020.01
Date1971
DimensionsOverall: 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. (8.9 x 8.9 cm)
Credit LineOld State House Museum collection
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    DescriptionColor photograph of Governor Dale Bumpers on his Inauguration Day. The governor and his family are sitting on a platform in front of the Old State House viewing the parade. He is wearing a light khaki trench coat. Betty Bumpers wears gold pea-coat (Old State House Collection.)

    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social services available to the elderly, disabled, and developmentally challenged, granted more power to the cities, repealed the “fair trade” liquor law, expended the state park system, created a prison construction program, and advocated for education reform and advancement.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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