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The Clintons lived in this house in the Hillcrest neighborhood of Little Rock from 1977 to 1979 while he was Arkansas Attorney General. [9]Bill Clinton had known Arkansas businessman and political figure Jim McDougal since 1968, and had made a previous real estate investment with him in 1977. [10]
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders ' office potentially violated state laws on purchasing, state property and government records when it purchased a $19,000 lectern for the Republican governor ...
Governor-elect Clinton meets with President Jimmy Carter in 1978. In 1978, Clinton entered the Arkansas gubernatorial primary. At 31 years old, he was one of the youngest gubernatorial candidates in the state's history. Clinton was elected governor of Arkansas in 1978, having defeated the Republican candidate Lynn Lowe, a farmer from Texarkana.
The Arkansas Constitution of 1836 established four-year terms for governors, [33] which was lowered to two years in the 1874, and current, constitution. [34] An amendment in 1984 increased the terms of both governor and lieutenant governor to four years. [ 35 ]
Arkansas governors served two-year terms until a referendum lengthened the term to four years, effective with the 1986 general election. Statewide elections are held two years after presidential elections. Some of Arkansas's counties have two county seats, as opposed to the usual one seat. The arrangement dates back to when travel was extremely ...
The Virginia Constitution of 1902 created the SCC to replace the Virginia Board of Public Works and the Office of Railroad Commissioner. The three-member Commission was charged with regulating the state railroads and telephone and telegraph companies and with registering corporations in Virginia. The SCC began operations on March 2, 1903.
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The lieutenant governor of Arkansas is the second-highest constitutional and elected office in the U.S. state of Arkansas.The lieutenant governor is the first in the gubernatorial line of succession, serving as acting governor of Arkansas when the governor is out of state and assuming the governorship in cases of the governor's impeachment, removal from office, death or inability to discharge ...