Bumpers, Dale (Personal Name)

Religion and politics, 1989: t.p. (Dale Bumpers) p. 24 (1st elected to U.S. Senate in 1974; now in his 3rd term as Democratic Senator from Arkansas)

Biographical directory of the U.S. Congress website, September 12, 2014 (Bumpers, Dale, a Senator from Arkansas; born in Charleston, Franklin County, Ark., August 12, 1925; attended the public schools of Arkansas and the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville; graduated, Northwestern University Law School, Chicago, Ill., 1951; admitted to the Arkansas bar in 1952 and commenced practice in Charleston; served in the United States Marine Corps 1943-1946; Charleston city attorney 1952-1970; special justice, Arkansas Supreme Court 1968; Governor of Arkansas 1970-1974; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1974; reelected in 1980, 1986, and again in 1992, and served from January 3, 1975, to January 3, 1999; was not a candidate for reelection in 1998; chairman, Committee on Small Business (One Hundredth through One Hundred Third Congresses))

National Governors Association website, September 12, 2014 (Arkansas Governor Dale Bumpers; office dates: Jan. 12, 1971-Jan. 3, 1975)

New York times WWW site, viewed Jan. 4, 2016 (in obituary published Jan. 2: Dale L. Bumpers; b. Dale Leon Bumpers, Aug. 12, 1925, Charleston, Ark.; d. Friday [Jan. 1, 2016], Little Rock, Ark., aged 90; liberal governor and four-term Democratic senator from Arkansas who came out of retirement in 1999 to make a passionate closing argument defending President Bill Clinton against removal from office in a Senate trial)