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Mark Lunsford Pryor (born January 10, 1963) is an American attorney, politician and lobbyist who served as a United States Senator from Arkansas from 2003 to 2015. He previously served as Attorney General of Arkansas from 1999 to 2003 and in the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1991 to 1995.
The 2008 United States Senate election in Arkansas was held on November 4, 2008. Incumbent Senator Mark Pryor ran for a second term. No Republican filed to challenge him, and his only opponent was Green Party candidate Rebekah Kennedy. Pryor won re-election with almost 80% of the vote.
2014 United States Senate election in Arkansas ← 2008 November 4, 2014 2020 → Nominee Tom Cotton Mark Pryor Party Republican Democratic Popular vote 478,819 334,174 Percentage 56.50% 39.43% County results Congressional district results Cotton: 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% Pryor: 50–60% 60–70% U.S. senator before election Mark Pryor Democratic Elected U.S. Senator Tom Cotton ...
Elected governor in 1974, replacing Bumpers, Pryor served four years before being elected to the U.S. Senate, where Pryor won passage of a Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights in 1988.
Pryor is the son of longtime U.S. senator and former Arkansas Governor David Pryor. It was rumored that Lt. Governor Bill Halter would challenge Pryor in the primary, but Halter declined to file as a candidate. [32] Rebekah Kennedy of the Green Party was Pryor's only opposition. Pryor won on election day, with 79.53% of the vote. Kennedy took ...
Pryor's son, Mark Pryor, served two terms in the U.S. Senate. David Pryor was considered one of the party’s giants in Arkansas, alongside Clinton and the late U.S. Sen. Dale Bumpers.
Senator Party Dates in office Electoral history T T Electoral history Dates in office Party Senator # 1 William S. Fulton: Jacksonian Sep 18, 1836 – Aug 15, 1844 Elected in 1836. 1 24th: 1 Elected in 1836. Sep 18, 1836 – Mar 15, 1848 Jacksonian Ambrose Hundley Sevier: 1 Democratic 25th: 2 Re-elected in 1837. Democratic 26th: Re-elected in 1840.
The 2002 United States Senate election in Arkansas was held on November 5, 2002. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Tim Hutchinson ran for a second term, but was defeated by Democratic candidate Mark Pryor , whose father David had held the seat from 1979 to 1997.