Republican Party of Arkansas

Republican Party of Arkansas

Chairperson	Doyle Webb
Senate leader	Eddie Joe Williams
House leader	Ken Bragg
Ideology	Conservatism Fiscal conservatism Social conservatism
National affiliation	Republican Party
Seats in the Upper House	24 / 35
Seats in the Lower House	64 / 100
Website
www.arkansasgop.org

The Republican Party of Arkansas (RPA) is the affiliate of the United States Republican Party in Arkansas.

The party is led by state chairman Doyle Webb, who was re-elected to serve a third term in December 2012. Webb, an attorney and former State Senator, was once chief of staff for the late Lieutenant Governor Winthrop Paul Rockefeller

The RPA's headquarters is on West 6th Street in downtown Little Rock. Heather McKim serves as Finance Director. Isaac Foley serves as Political Directors for the 1st and 2nd Districts. Sarah Jo Reynolds serves as Political Director for the 3rd and 4th Districts. Shannon Haney serves as Special Projects Manager.^[1]

History

The United States Republican Party, or GOP, is the second oldest currently existing political party in the United States after its older rival, the Democratic Party.

Both parties exist in all fifty states. Historically, prior to the late 20th century, the Republican Party was much weaker than the Democrats in the former Confederate States of America, including Arkansas.

The Arkansas party did not hire its first paid executive director until 1970, when businessman Neal Sox Johnson, then of Nashville, Arkansas, assumed the position in the last year of Winthrop Rockefeller second term as governor of Arkansas. Johnson help the position until early in 1973, when he left Arkansas to take a high position with the former Farmers Home Administration in Washington, D.C..^[2]

Between 2010 and 2014, Arkansas Republicans won all four U.S House seats, both U.S Senate seats, majorities in both houses of the state legislature and all of the statewide offices.

Republican allied groups

There are five groups and these groups are: Arkansas Republican Hispanic Assembly, Arkansas Black Republican Caucus, Arkansas Federation of College Republicans, Arkansas Federation of Young Republicans and Arkansas Federation of Republican Women.

Tusk Club

The Tusk Club is another arm of the Arkansas Republican Party.

Current elected officials

The Arkansas Republican Party controls all of the state's seven statewide offices. Republicans also hold both of the state's U.S. Senate seats and all four of the state's U.S. House seats.

Members of Congress

U.S. Senate

U.S. House of Representatives

Statewide offices

Governor: Asa Hutchinson
Lieutenant Governor: Tim Griffin
Attorney General: Leslie Rutledge
Secretary of State: Mark Martin
State Auditor: Andrea Lea
State Treasurer: Dennis Milligan
Commissioner of State Lands: John Thurston

State Legislature

President Pro Tem of the Senate: Jonathan Dismang
Senate Majority Leader: Jim Hendren
Speaker of the House: Jeremy Gillam

Past Republican state chairmen

References

↑ arkansasgop.org
↑ Arkansas Outlook, Arkansas Republican Party newsletter, February 1973

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