Button, Birthday Bash - Senator Dale Bumpers

 
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Button, Birthday Bash - Senator Dale Bumpers
Button, Birthday Bash - Senator Dale Bumpers
Button, Birthday Bash - Senator Dale Bumpers
Button, Birthday Bash - Senator Dale Bumpers

Button, Birthday Bash - Senator Dale Bumpers

Object number1990.030.01
DateAugust 11, 1985
OriginLittle Rock, Arkansas, United States of America
MediumPlastic, Metal
Dimensions2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm)
Credit LineOld State House Museum Collection
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    DescriptionA button that reads "Bumper's Birthday Bash." The circular button is cream-colored and features a caricature in the center of Dale Bumpers. He is holding an empty bucket with a water-soaked cake near him.

    Dale Leon Bumpers was born on August 12, 1925, in Charleston, Arkansas. He married his 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social services available to the elderly, disabled, and developmentally challenged, granted more power to the cities, repealed the "fair trade" liquor law, expanded the state park system, created a prison construction program, and advocated for education reform and advancement.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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