He never lost an election: that’s not true of David Pryor, Mr. Bill, Winthrop Rockefeller, Orval Eugene Faubus, J. William Fulbright, Frank D. White, Asa Hutchinson, Mike Huckabee, and so many others. His hatred of Jesse Helms is what I remember most about Mr. “Dandy Dale”.
Turns out I’m wrong: Bumpers lost a 1962 race for the Arkansas state House in which his father, William Rufus Bumpers, had previously servedLike the father of Mr. Bill, William Rufus Bumpers died in a car wreck.