The Arkansas Government
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Governor
Asa Hutchinson
46th Governor of Arkansas. He has served as a District Attorney, Federal Congressman, Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and the first Undersecretary for Border and Transportation Security in the Department of Homeland Security. He was elected Governor in 2014 and reelected in 2018.
Party: Republican
Age: 70
Phone: (501) 682-2345
Lieutenant Governor
Tim Griffin
Born in North Carolina and raised in Magnolia, Arkansas. He graduated from Tulane University, New Orleans, with a law degree and became special counsel to Assistant Attorney General Michael Chertoff in Washington DC. He subsequently served as a United States Attorney in the eastern district of Arkansas and was elected as a federal congressman, a position he held from 2011 to 2015. In that year he became Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas.
Party: Republican
Age: 52
Phone: (501) 682-2144.
Arkansas Secretary of State
John Thurston
He is a Christian pastor. For 13 years he led the Little Rock Agape Church before entering politics. He was elected as the first Republican to be Commissioner of Lands, a position he resigned to run in the elections for Secretary of State, a position he has held since January 2019.
Party: Republican
Phone: (501) 682-1010
Arkansas Attorney General
Leslie Rutledge
A native of Batesville, Arkansas, she graduated from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock with a law degree. She made her legal career primarily as a prosecutor for the state.
She was elected Arkansas Attorney General, a position she has held since 2015, being the first woman and Republican to hold that position. She is also the only elected Arkansas politician to give birth while in office.
Party: Republican
Age: 45
Phone: (501) 682-2007
Members of the Federal Congress
Senator
John Boozman
John Nichols Boozman was born in 1950 in Shreveport, Louisiana, where his father was a member of the Air Force. He grew up in Fort Smith and was a football player at the University of Arkansas. He later graduated as an optometrist from the Southern College of Optometry. Since 1977 he has been the co-owner of an eye clinic in Northwest Arkansas.
He was elected as a U.S. representative in 2001 and has been a U.S. senator since 2011.
Party: Republican
Phone: (202) 224-4843
Senator
Tom Cotton
Thomas Bryant Cotton was born in 1977 in Dardanelle, Arkansas, where he grew up on a farm. He studied government administration at Harvard University, graduating in three years. He subsequently earned a doctorate in law at that university before joining the military.
He is considered one of the most conservative U.S. senators.
Party: Republican
Phone: (202) 224-2353
Congressmen
Rick Crawford
Representative of the First Electoral District (northeast, central east and southeast Arkansas)
He was born at Homestead Air Force Base, Florida, where his father was stationed. He enlisted in the military where he became an explosives expert. He subsequently graduated from Arkansas State University in Agricultural Business and Economics.
He competed in rodeos until an injury ended his career, then he turned to radio, music, and anchoring news on television. He has been in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2011.
Party: Republican
Phone (Washington): (202) 225-4076
Phone (Jonesboro): (870) 203-0540
French Hill
Representative of the Second Electoral District (central Arkansas)
He was born in Little Rock in 1956 and graduated as an economist from Vanderbilt University in Tennessee. He studied at the University of California at Los Angeles.
A member of the Republican Party, he has been in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2015.
Party: Republican
Phone (Washington): (202) 225-2506
Phone (Conway): (501) 358-3481
Phone (Little Rock): (501) 324-5941
Steve Womack
Representative of the Third Electoral District (northwest Arkansas)
He was born in Russellville, Arkansas, in 1957. He graduated from Arkansas Tech University before enlisting in the National Guard from which he retired in 2009 as a colonel. In 1998 he was elected mayor of Rogers where he was against undocumented immigration. He allowed immigration agents to operate in the police department. Also during his tenure the local economy had a remarkable growth.
He was re-elected mayor in 2002 and 2006. He has been in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2011.
Party: Republican
Phone (Washington): (202) 225-4301
Phone (Rogers): (479) 464-0446
Phone (Harrison): (870) 741-6900
Phone (Fort Smith): (479) 424-1146
Bruce Westerman
Representative of the Fourth Electoral District (east, northwest, and south Arkansas)
He was born in 1967 and grew up in Hot Springs, where he has a home. He graduated as an engineer from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville where he played football. He later earned a master's degree in forestry from Yale University.
He is a Republican. He was a member of the Arkansas Congress from 2011 to 2014. Then he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he has served since 2015.
Party: Republican
Phone (Washington): (202) 225-3772
Phone (El Dorado): (870) 864-8946
Phone (Hot Springs): (501) 609-9887
Phone (Ozark): (479) 667-0075
Phone (Pine Bluff): (870) 536-8178