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Jim Guy Tucker is a former Arkansas politician and attorney who served as governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, and U.S. representative. He resigned as governor in 1996 after being convicted for fraud in the Whitewater affair.
Jul 24, 2024 · In 1982, he attempted a political comeback, running for governor in the Democratic primary, but came in third in a five-man race as Clinton reclaimed the seat he had given up to Frank White in 1980. Tucker’s political career seemed truly over.
Learn about the political career of Mike Huckabee, who served as the third Republican governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007. Find out his achievements, controversies, and controversies during his two terms in office.
May 21, 2024 · For several hours, both Tucker and Lieutenant Governor Mike Huckabee claimed to be the governor of Arkansas; the potential constitutional crisis passed when Tucker relented by the end of the day. The new governor, Huckabee, was the third Republican to hold the office in the twentieth century and arrived at a time when the Rockefeller vision of ...
Sep 15, 2024 · The following year Huckabee won a special election to fill Arkansas’s vacant lieutenant governor’s seat after the previous tenant, Jim Guy Tucker, became governor following Bill Clinton’s ascent to the presidency. Tucker’s resignation in 1996 made Huckabee only the third Republican governor of Arkansas since Reconstruction (1865–77 ...
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Nov 4, 2022 · Running for president in 2008, he claimed to have been the fiercest anti-taxer in Arkansas history — the first governor ever to cut taxes, and over Democratic opposition. None of it was true.
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May 8, 2011 · Huckabee, after taking the oath of office at the state Capitol in Little Rock in 1996. He became governor after the resignation of Jim Guy Tucker in the wake of Tucker's Whitewater convictions.
