"Arkansas Senator" Dale Bumpers Signed TLS Dated 1979 Todd Mueller COA

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Up for auction "Arkansas Senator" Dale Bumpers Signed TLS Dated 1979.
This item is certified authentic by Todd Mueller Autographs and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity.
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Dale Leon Bumpers
(August 12, 1925 – January 1, 2016) was an American
politician
who served as the
38th
Governor of Arkansas
(1971–1975) and in the
United States Senate
(1975–1999). He was a member of the
Democratic Party
. Prior to his death, he was
counsel
at the
Washington, D.C.
office of law firm
Arent Fox LLP
, where his clients included
Riceland Foods
and the
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
. Bumpers was born August 12, 1925,
[1]
in
Charleston
in
Franklin County
, in west central Arkansas, near the larger city of
Fort Smith
, the son of
William Rufus Bumpers
(1888–1949), who served in the
Arkansas House of Representatives
in the early 1930s, and the former Lattie Jones (1889–1949). Bumpers' brother, Raymond J. Bumpers (1912–1916), died of
dysentery
. Another older brother, Carroll Bumpers, was born in 1921. He has a sister named Margaret. Bumpers' parents died five days apart in March 1949 of injuries sustained in an automobile accident; the couple is interred at Nixon Cemetery in Franklin County.
Bumpers attended
public schools
and the
University of Arkansas
at
Fayetteville
in
Washington County
. He served in the
United States Marine Corps
from 1943 to 1946 during World War II. Bumpers graduated from
Northwestern University Law School
in
Chicago
,
Illinois
, in 1951. From his time in Illinois, he became a great admirer of
Adlai Stevenson, II
, the Democratic presidential candidate in
1952
and
1956
. Bumpers was admitted to the Arkansas bar in 1952 and began practicing law in his hometown that same year. He was from 1952 to 1970 the Charleston city attorney. He served as
special justice
[
of the
Arkansas Supreme Court
in 1968. Bumpers lost his 1962 bid for the same state House seat once represented by his father, who had wanted to run for the
United States House of Representatives
but could not amass the funding to do so.