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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—ArkansasBUMPERS, Dale
(1925—)
Senate Years of Service:
1975-1999
Party:
Democrat
BUMPERS, Dale, a Senator from Arkansas; born in Charleston, Franklin County, Ark., August 12, 1925; attended the public schools of Arkansas and the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville; graduated, Northwestern University Law School, Chicago, Ill., 1951; admitted to the Arkansas bar in 1952 and commenced practice in Charleston; served in the United States Marine Corps 1943-1946; Charleston city attorney 1952-1970; special justice, Arkansas Supreme Court 1968; Governor of Arkansas 1970-1974; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1974 for the term commencing January 3, 1975; reelected in 1980, 1986, and again in 1992 for the term ending January 3, 1999; was not a candidate for reelection in 1998; chairman, Committee on Small Business (One Hundredth through One Hundred Third Congresses).
Bibliography
Bumpers, Dale. The Best Lawyer in a One-Lawyer Town: A Memoir
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Bumpers, Dale. “Congress: Essential Ingredient in a Sound Foreign Policy.” SAIS Review
5 (Winter-Spring 1985): 51-64.
___. The Best Lawyer in a One-Lawyer Town: A Memoir
. New York: Random House, 2003.
___, et al. Religion in American Politics
. Edited by W. Lawson Taitte. Dallas: University of Texas at Dallas, 1989.
Johnson, Willie Stephen. “The Bumpers-Fulbright Senate Race: A Rhetorical Analysis.” Ph.d. dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1981.
Smith, Harold T. “J. William Fulbright and the Arkansas 1975 Senatorial Election.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly
44 (Summer 1985): 103-17.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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