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Coming from political nowhere in 1970, the likable lawyer from the hills of Arkansas surprised everybody by defeating former Governor Orval Faubus in the Democratic gubernatorial primary. He then trounced the Republican incumbent, the late Winthrop Rockefeller. He easily won a second term in 1972 and then toppled the Senate's Foreign Relations Chairman J. William Fulbright in the primary last spring. He collected 85% of the vote last week against his outclassed G.O.P. opponent, John Harris Jones...
Bumpers has been a rising political star from the moment 41/2 years ago when he stepped in front of a television camera in 1970 to challenge Orval Faubus in the Democratic gubernatorial primary. Faubus went down to defeat, although he had served as Governor for six terms, and Bumpers had so little money that he had to sell his dairy herd for $95,000 to pay campaign and family expenses. Then it was the turn of Governor Winthrop Rockefeller, the Republican incumbent. In the November election, Rockefeller called Bumpers "a vaguely pleasant fellow with one speech, a shoeshine...
Among his notable achievements was his coverage of the Arkansas school integration fight in 1957, when the National Guard was ordered in to counteract Governor Orval Faubus' refusal to mix the classrooms. He impressed other newsmen with his solid judgment, laying it on the line about Faubus without being offensive. It was also an assignment that caught the eye of NBC network bosses in New York...
Such a defeat is not likely to happen again. Already Bumpers has shown a flair for dealing with the state's stolid legislature (in the face of which even Faubus sat on his hands during his first term in office). In three short months Bumpers managed to accomplish a reorganization of the governmental bureaucracy, a removal of use-tax exemptions for utilities, an increase in the cigarette and personal income tax, and legislation giving home-rule powers to the cities. He also made inroads into two of the state's thorniest problems, gaining a pay increase of $900 for teachers...
White Flag. Democrat Dale Bumpers, the neophyte politician who upset Orval Faubus in the primary runoff, then went on to beat Winthrop Rockefeller for Governor of Arkansas, also talked of improving education and promised reform of the state's infamous prison system. "The future I envision," Bumpers said, "must be shaped and shared by all Arkansans-old and young, black and white, rich and poor...