Bumpers

Dale Leon Bumpers (born 12 August 1925) is an American politician who served as Governor of Arkansas from 1971 to 1975; and then in United States Senate from 1975 until his retirement in January 1999. He is member of the Democratic Party. more...

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Biography

Dale Bumpers was born in Charleston in Franklin County in west central Arkansas. He attended public schools and the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. He served in the United States Marine Corps from 1943 to 1946 during World War II. Bumpers graduated from Northwestern University Law School in Evanston, Illinois, in 1951. From his time in Illinois, he became a great admirer of Adlai Ewing Stevenson, II, the Democratic presidential candidate in 1952 and 1956. Bumpers was admitted to the Arkansas bar in 1952. He started practicing law in his hometown in that same year and served as Charleston city attorney from 1952 to 1970. He served as special justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court in 1968.

Governor of Arkansas

Bumpers was virtually unknown when he announced his campaign for governor in 1970. Despite his lack of name recognition, his oratorical skills, personal charm, and outsider image put him in a runoff election for the Democratic nomination with former Governor Orval Faubus. Bumpers easily defeated Faubus and then unseated the incumbent moderate Republican Governor Winthrop Rockefeller in the general election. It was a heavily Democratic year nationally, and the tide benefited Bumpers. Bumpers, like Jimmy Carter of Georgia and John C. West of South Carolina was often described as a new kind of Southern Democrat who would bring reform to his state and the Democratic Party. His victory over Rockefeller ushered in a new era of youthful reform-minded governors, including two of his successors, David Pryor (later a three-term U. S. Senator) and Bill Clinton. Bumpers served as governor from 1971 to 1975, when he was elected to the United States Senate, having unseated the incumbent James William Fulbright in the party primary.

United States Senator

Bumpers was elected to the Senate four times, beginning with his huge victory over Fulbright, the veteran chairman of the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Bumpers chaired the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship from 1987 until 1995, when the Republican Party took control of the Senate for a dozen years following the 1994 elections. Bumpers served as ranking minority member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources from [[1997\\ until his retirement. In the Senate, Bumpers was known for his oratorical skills and for his prodigious respect for the Constitution of the United States. Bumpers was proud of his legacy of having never voted for a constitutional amendment.

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