Mike Dale Beebe (born December 28, 1946) is the 45th and current Governor of Arkansas, since January 9, 2007. He was elected to a second term in 2010. Beebe is a member of the Democratic Party.
Beebe was born in Amagon, a small town in Jackson County, Arkansas. He was raised by his mother, a waitress, and never met his father. As a child, he moved often with his family. They lived in Detroit, St. Louis, Chicago, Houston and Alamogordo, New Mexico. They returned to Arkansas, and he graduated from Newport High School in 1964.
Beebe received a bachelor of arts degree in political science from Arkansas State University in 1968, where he was a member of Sigma Pi fraternity. He earned a law degree from the University of Arkansas in 1972. Beebe served in the U.S. Army Reserve. He practiced law in Searcy in White County for ten years after his graduation from law school.
In 1982, he was elected to the Arkansas State Senate, where he would serve for 20 years. In 2002, he was elected Arkansas Attorney General, a position he held until getting elected Governor of Arkansas.
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GRIFFIN, Tim, a Representative from Arkansas; born in Charlotte, Mecklenberg County, North Carolina, on August 21, 1968; B.A., Hendrix College, Conway, Ark., 1990; attended Pembroke College, Oxford University, 1991; J.D., Tulane Law School, New Orleans, La., 1994; United States Army Reserves, Judge Advocate General’s Corps, 1996-present; business owner; lawyer, private practice; U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, 2006-2007; special assistant, White House Office of Political Affairs on the nomination for Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., 2005; elected as a Republican to the One Hundred Twelfth Congress (January 3, 2011-present).
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