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 pryor_tranthree
Pryor: That is an interesting question, because I have a feeling that Bill Clinton and Jim Guy Tucker who were more in the same age category, I was a little bit older, I think that they sort of grew up in Arkansas politics kind of feeling like they may eventually clash.
Pryor: George Bush as I recall was kind of the chairman or the president of the newly elected Republicans.
Pryor: I got inundated with people who wanted jobs, they wanted to be appointed to the cabinet, they wanted this and they wanted that they wanted jobs for their kids.
www.aetn.org /distinction/html/pryor_tranthree.html   (3234 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: Pryor Knocks Off Hutchinson
Democrat Mark Pryor, son of former Democratic Sen. David Pryor (1979-97), beat Republican incumbent Sen. Tim Hutchinson in a win that was widely expected by both Republicans and Democrats.
Hutchinson, who captured David Pryor's seat upon his retirement in 1996, was the state's first Republican senator since the post-Civil War Reconstruction era.
Pryor had momentum at the end of the race, however, and many predicted that he would win Tuesday.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A11876-2002Nov6?language=printer   (203 words)

  
 The Santa Barbara Independent - The County's News and Entertainment Paper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
David Hale Pryor was born November 9, 1946, in Nashville, the youngest of three children and the second son of Ben and Flora Pryor.
David Bearman of Goleta, founder of the Isla Vista Medical Clinic and an outspoken advocate of marijuana's uses in medicine, prepared a comprehensive report for court, analyzing the benefits of pot for Pryor.
The reason why David Pryor is not getting convicted of cultivating marijuana is because it is a more serious charge, and there's at least some evidence to suggest that he was cultivating for personal use for a medical necessity.
www.independent.com /news/fs_0686.htm   (5167 words)

  
 Traveler's Guide to Arkansas | Governors of Arkansas Portrait Gallery | State | 1975-Present   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
David Pryor received a B.A. in political science from the University of Arkansas in 1957 and a LL.B. from the University of Arkansas School of Law in 1964.
During his tenure, Pryor championed reform of the 1874 Constitution and was instrumental in the calling of two conventions to revise the state’s fundamental document.
Pryor’s administrations were noted for the quality of his appointments to boards and commissions, including numerous women and African-Americans, and by his devotion to fiscal restraint.
www.soskids.arkansas.gov /govs-state-1975.html   (1262 words)

  
 David Hampton Pryor » Biographies of Arkansas's Governors » Exhibits » Old State House
David Pryor was born on August 29, 1934, in Camden, Arkansas.
Pryor appointed an unprecedented number of fls and women to offices and oversight committees, transforming an instrument of pure cronyism into one more reflective of the diversity of the state.
Pryor's administration seemed living proof of Sid McMath's observation that Arkansas governors were "dictators in their first legislature session and spectators in their second." Pryor further complicated his second term problems by also calling an ill-conceived special session which soon degenerated into a cross between a free-for-all and a feeding frenzy.
www.oldstatehouse.com /exhibits/virtual/governors/the_new_south/pryor.asp   (629 words)

  
 david_timeline
1934 David Hampton Pryor is born in Camden, Arkansas to Edgar and Susie Pryor.
Pryor campaigns for Humphrey and decides to be a delegate at the Democratic Convention set for Chicago.
David Hampton Pryor, having served six years in the Arkansas General Assembly, six year as a United States Congressman, four years as Governor of Arkansas and eighteen years in the United States Senate, steps down from elected life.
www.aetn.org /distinction/html/david_timeline.html   (1225 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: The Arkansas Senate Race -- Mark Pryor Biography
Mark Pryor was born in 1963 in Fayetteville Arkansas, the college town that is home to the state's flagship university.
When Pryor missed a fundraiser in West Memphis where Clinton was the keynote speaker, his campaign said that he was preparing for a debate against his opponent, incumbent Sen. Tim Hutchinson.
Pryor, however, has the backing of his own party and the advantage of being the son of a highly popular and still well-regarded politician.
www.pbs.org /newshour/vote2002/races/ar_pryor.html   (453 words)

  
 David Pryor Named Director of the Institute of Politics
Former U.S. Sen. David Pryor, who retired in 1996 after 30 years of public service on behalf of the state of Arkansas, has been named director of the Institute of Politics (IOP) at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr.
Pryor will oversee all of the IOP’s activities, including its resident Fellows Program for individuals active in public life; student study groups and internships; special conferences and seminars for elected officials; and lectures, debates, and symposia.
Pryor was also secretary of the Democratic Conference, was third in the Senate Democratic leadership, and served as a member of the Senate Democratic Steering Committee.
www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2000/04.13/pryor.html   (533 words)

  
 University of Arkansas - Daily Headlines
Pryor graduated from the University of Arkansas School of Law in 1964 and was admitted to the bar that same year.
Pryor was not a candidate for re-election in 1996 and retired from elected office in 1997.
Pryor is the dean of the University of Arkansas Clinton School and a member of the Campaign for the Twenty-First Century Steering Committee.
dailyheadlines.uark.edu /4763.htm   (1384 words)

  
 Ascension Health: David B. Pryor, MD, Senior Vice President, Clinical Excellence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
David B. Pryor, MD, is the Senior Vice President, Clinical Excellence and the senior clinical officer of the system.
Pryor began his rise to prominence in clinical excellence at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., where he served as a practicing cardiologist and Director of the cardiology consultation service, the section of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, the Duke Database for Cardiovascular Disease, and clinical program development.
Pryor is a graduate of the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, Mich., and he completed his medical internship and residency at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, and his fellowship in cardiovascular diseases at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
www.ascensionhealth.org /about/national_leadership/david_pryor.asp   (345 words)

  
 Tim Hutchinson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was elected to the House of Representatives as a Republican in 1992, representing the 3rd District.
Hutchinson served in the House until 1997, when he ran for the Senate seat being vacated by David Pryor.
When he was up for re-election, his Democratic opponent was David Pryor's son Mark, who didn't mention the divorce.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tim_Hutchinson   (228 words)

  
 Pryor - dKosopedia
The Pryor family is relatively unknown in the nation as a whole, but they remain very influential in Arkansas to this day.
David Pryor won the Arkansas Governorship in 1974, and was re-elected in 1976.
Mark Pryor is part of the coalition of conservative southern Democrats, a group that would also include Louisiana Senators John Breaux and Mary Landrieu.
www.dkosopedia.com /index.php?title=Pryor&printable=yes   (163 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: David Pryor
US Senator David Pryor from govt site File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version.
The United States Senate Special Committee on Aging was initially established in 1961 as a temporary committee, and becaming a permanent committee in 1977.
Office: Junior Senator, Arkansas Political party: Democratic Term of office: January, 2003 – Present Preceded by: Tim Hutchinson Succeeded by: Incumbent (2009) Date of birth: January 10, 1963 Place of birth: Fayetteville, Arkansas Marriage: Jill Pryor Mark Lunsford Pryor (born January 10, 1963) is a politician in Arkansas.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/David-Pryor   (2408 words)

  
 U.S. Senator Mark Pryor - About Mark
Pryor was first elected to public office in 1990 as a member of the Arkansas State House of Representatives.
Pryor worked with Democrats and Republicans to toughen laws against drunk drivers, enact legislation to protect children on the Internet and to put in place the Morgan Nick Alert System, which helps to locate missing and exploited children.
Pryor was born in Fayetteville on January 10, 1963 and grew up in both Arkansas and Washington D.C. He received a B.A. in History and his law degree from the University of Arkansas and worked in private legal practice for eight years.
pryor.senate.gov /biography.htm   (390 words)

  
 Archives: Story
Pryor and James "Skip" Rutherford were the keynote speakers Thursday night for the annual Arkadelphia Area Chamber of Commerce banquet.
Pryor said applications were received not only from all over Arkansas, but from all over the United States and all over the world.
Pryor said the staff is now interviewing students for the first class of the Clinton School and will be announcing their names soon.
www.siftingsherald.com /articles/2005/03/18/news/news2.txt   (716 words)

  
 Pryor to students: Get involved
As director, Pryor will oversee all of the IOP's activities, including the celebrated Forum series, which brings prominent statesmen, journalists, scholars, and political professionals to the Institute to discuss and debate a range of topical issues.
Pryor, who was first elected to public office in Arkansas in 1960, the same year Kennedy was elected to the White House, maintains that he has great hopes for the nation's political system despite a certain sense of disillusionment, particularly among younger Americans, that has intensified in recent years.
Richard Cooper '01, vice-chair of the IOP student advisory committee, was impressed with Pryor's participation in the voter registration drive.
www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2000/10.12/5-pryor.html   (918 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Cancer survivor to straddle party line   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Pryor underwent 13 hours of surgery to have his tendon replaced in 1996.
Pryor became the nation's youngest attorney general in 1998 when Arkansas voters elected him as their top law enforcement officer.
During the campaign, he touted his efforts to crack down on alleged overcharging by pharmaceutical companies, a favorite target of David Pryor's when he was in the Senate.
www.usatoday.com /news/politicselections/2002-11-06-pryor_x.htm   (342 words)

  
 ADB
David Pryor, a longtime buddy of the Clintons and former senator and Arkansas governor, hasn't been a member of Congress since 1996, but he's still doling out campaign contributions from his David Pryor for U.S. Senate Committee.
David J. Jones, a former Arkansas TV mogul, is on trial in federal court in Little Rock for allegedly importing Chinese women for sexual purposes while rounding up favorable treatment for them from immigration officials and other people in government.
Pryor told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in April that he hopes his new job will enable him to help combat some of the cynicism about politicians' thirst for power and personal gain that causes young people to drop out of the political system.
www.network54.com /Forum/message?forumid=4227&messageid=964604583   (1196 words)

  
 GAO: The Honorable David Pryor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
David Pryor became the Director of the Institute of Politics on August 1, 2000 after a long and distinguished career in public service.
Pryor's first committee assignment in the U.S. Senate was the Committee on Agriculture, where he served as chairman of the Agriculture Subcommittee on Agricultural Production and Stabilization of Prices.
David Pryor was a Fellow at the Institute of Politics in the spring of 1999.
www.gao.gov /a76panel/bios/pryor.html   (288 words)

  
 Archives: Story
Pryor, Arkansas'; former governor and the dean of the Clinton School of Public Service, presented Kerry's point of view, and Hutchinson spoke on behalf of President George W. Bush.
Pryor spoke first concerning terrorism, calling Bush's "unilateral pre-emptive doctrine" a sure way of telling the world that "no matter what others do, we are going to do whatever, wherever we want to do.
Pryor said that he found it interesting that Bush said he wanted to make education a top priority of his presidency.
www.siftingsherald.com /articles/2004/10/05/news/news2.txt   (891 words)

  
 In Tight Arkansas Senate Race, Family Matters (washingtonpost.com)
Mark Pryor represents the fifth generation of his family to hold public office (the first three were sheriffs of Ouachita County).
One features Pryor, his wife, Jill, and their two children saying grace over dinner, and Pryor, holding a Bible, saying, "The most important lessons in life are in this book right here." Another, portraying Pryor as a fiscal conservative, opens with his wife by his side.
Pryor campaigns on his populist record as attorney general -- he sued tobacco and drug companies and made it possible for Arkansans to block telemarketing calls -- and vows to govern as his father did.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A38104-2002Aug2   (1931 words)

  
 University of Arkansas - Daily Headlines
Pryor was a representative in the Arkansas legislature from 1960-1966, a U. representative from 1966-1972, the governor of Arkansas from 1974-1978, and a U. senator from 1978-1996.
The Senator David H. Pryor Papers were donated to the University of Arkansas Libraries' Special Collections in two major accessions.
Pryor, who will be honored at the event, said, "I hope that the items in this collection will be of benefit to those who research and study this time period in our state's history.
dailyheadlines.uark.edu /4458.htm   (497 words)

  
 Judge Denied Pryor's Plea For McDougal's Freedom - 01-07-98
Pryor met privately with Judge Susan Webber Wright on Dec. 23 to see if she would release McDougal, who serving time on contempt charges.
Wright called Pryor "compassionate" and "tenderhearted," and said she believed his motives were honorable.
Wright said she told Pryor that even if she were to release McDougal, she would go to another prison to serve a two-year sentence for bank fraud rather than be set free.
www.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/1998/01/07/mcdougal   (289 words)

  
 Arkansas News Bureau - Pryor a no-show at Clinton visit
Michael Teague, a spokesman for Pryor, said the senator was honoring a commitment to be at home with his children, ages 9 and 10, on Halloween.
Also on the stage were Pryor's parents, Barbara and former U.S. Sen. David Pryor, who is dean of the developing University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service.
Pryor's commitment to his children, Teague emphasized, should be taken in context of Pryor's campaign activities.
www.arkansasnews.com /archive/2004/11/02/News/307699.html   (384 words)

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