Button, Campaign - Senator Dale Bumpers

 
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Button, Campaign - Senator Dale Bumpers
Button, Campaign - Senator Dale Bumpers
Button, Campaign - Senator Dale Bumpers
Button, Campaign - Senator Dale Bumpers

Button, Campaign - Senator Dale Bumpers

Object number2002.050.01
Date1984
MediumPlastic, Metal
Dimensions1 3/4 × 1/4 in. (4.4 × 0.6 cm)
Credit LineOld State House Museum Collection
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    DescriptionA Senator Dale Bumpers for presiden campaign button. It is round and yellow with black lettering and image of Bumpers in the center.

    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. Bumpers thought about running for President in 1984, but decided against it. 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.
    Status
    On view
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