Dale L. Bumpers
| Dale Bumpers | |
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United States Senator from Arkansas |
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In office January 3, 1975 – January 3, 1999 |
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| Preceded by | William Fulbright |
| Succeeded by | Blanche Lincoln |
| 38th Governor of Arkansas | |
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In office January 12, 1971 – January 3, 1975 |
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| Lieutenant | Bob Riley |
| Preceded by | Winthrop Rockefeller |
| Succeeded by | Bob Riley (Acting) |
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Dale Leon Bumpers August 12, 1925 Charleston, Arkansas, U.S. |
| Died | January 1, 2016 (aged 90) Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Betty Flanagan (1949–2016) |
| Children | 3 |
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University of Arkansas, Fayetteville (BA) Northwestern University (JD) |
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| Allegiance |
 United States
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| Service/branch |
 United States Marine Corps
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| Years of service | 1943–1946 |
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, 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.
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