Word: cumbent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DALE BUMPERS, 49. Probably the nation's fastest-rising politician, the Arkansas Senator has achieved a giant-killer reputation by coming out of his state's hill country to defeat popular former Governor Orval Faubus in a primary election. Later in 1970, he knocked off the in cumbent Governor Winthrop Rockefeller to take over the statehouse and, finally, Senator J. William Fulbright last year. Breezy, charming and easygoing, his winning ways make him a highly effective campaigner. A lawyer and farmer who tags himself a populist, Bumpers is liberal on such issues as expanded Medicare and race relations...