Secretaries of State of Arkansas - Kelly Bryant, Winston Bryant, Secretary of State of Arkansas, Charlie Daniels (Paperback)

Chapters: Kelly Bryant, Winston Bryant, Secretary of State of Arkansas, Charlie Daniels. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Kelly Bryant (August 28, 1908 - October 1975) served as the Democratic secretary of state of the U.S. state of Arkansas from 1963 until his death nearly thirteen years later. He was one of three statewide politicians born in Hope, the seat of Hempstead County, in southern Arkansas. The others are former Governor and U.S. President William Jefferson Blythe "Bill" Clinton and former Governor and presidential candidate Michael Dale "Mike" Huckabee. Bryant was elected to seven two-year terms as secretary of state, Arkansas' principal record-keeping agency, which processes election returns. Usually the office attracts little attention from the public or the media. In 1964, when U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and Governor Orval E. Faubus were elected, Bryant defeated the little known Republican challenger, Charles R. Watson of Arkadelphia, the seat of Clark County in south Arkansas. Bryant received 389,295 votes (73.1 percent) to Watson's 143,263 (26.9 percent). Watson won only in often Republican-leaning Searcy County in the northwestern portion of the state. In 1968, Bryant faced a stronger Republican candidate in Lynn A. Davis, who ran on the Winthrop Rockefeller ticket. Though Rockefeller narrowly won his second term, the Democrat Bryant defeated Davis, who would later be the United States Marshal for the Eastern District of Arkansas and had been Rockefeller's choice to head the Arkansas state police. The Arkansas State Senate, however, refused to confirm Davis' appointment. Bryant received 320,203 votes (54.7 percent) to Davis' 265,510 (45.3 percent). Davis won thirteen of the state's seventy-five counties. In 1970, Bryant...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1231387