Dale Bumpers
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Dale Leon Bumpers was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 38th governor of Arkansas and in the United States Senate. He was a member of the Democratic Party. He was counsel at the Wash
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Bumpers in 1979
Bumpers with his wife Betty and President Bill Clinton, 1999
J. William Fulbright
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James William Fulbright was an American politician, academic, and statesman who served as a United States Senator from Arkansas from 1945 until his resignation in 1974. As of 2023, Fulbright is the lo
Dale Bumpers
…him to pursue his own agenda without any obligations. Bumpers was elected to the United States Senate in 1974. He unseated the long-term incumbent J. William Fulbright in the Democratic primary by a wide margin and then faced the Republican banker John Harris Jones. Jones accused Bumpers of excessive spending as…
Official portrait, 1960
Portrait by Harris & Ewing c. 1943
Fulbright early in his Senate career
Sen. J. William Fulbright and Lyndon B. Johnson in Washington DC, June 21, 1960