David Pryor

David Pryor (born August 29, 1934)is a former Arkansas senator and first Dean of the Clinton School of Public Service. He is the father of the current Arkansas Democratic Senator Mark Pryor. David Pryor was born in Camden, Arkansas, where he attended public school and, after high school, spent some time at Henderson State Teachers College before moving to the University of Arkansas and graduating in 1957. That same year, he founded the Ouachita Citizen and published it until 1960. In 1964, he graduated from the University of Arkansas Law School and, during the same year, was admitted to the bar.

Before graduating from law school, Dadid Pryor was elected the state representative in 1960, reelected in 1962 and 1964, then elected to both the Eighty-ninth Congress and the Ninetieth Congress on August 9, 1966. The reason for this double election is due to the resignation of Oren Harris from his seat in the Eighty-ninth Congress. He served until January 3, 1973, and though he failed to receive a nomination for a seat in the senate in 1972, he served as the Governor of Arkansas from 1975 to 1979, which helped him to receive a seat in the senate in 1978, where he stayed until January 3, 1997.

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= Biography at the = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress