{"id":1633,"date":"2017-09-15T08:04:11","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T08:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/?p=1633"},"modified":"2017-09-15T13:52:13","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T13:52:13","slug":"lieutenant-governor-campaigns-1996-1998-2002-wp-rockefeller-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/lieutenant-governor-campaigns-1996-1998-2002-wp-rockefeller-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Lieutenant Governor Campaigns, 1996, 1998, 2002 (WP Rockefeller-4)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rockefeller’s first venture into elected politics came when he won a narrow victory over Charlie Cole Chaffin for lieutenant governor in the November 1996 special election, which was necessitated by the resignation of Governor Jim Guy Tucker, Jr., and the installation of Lieutenant Governor Mike Huckabee to the governorship.<\/p>\n

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Winthrop Paul Rockefeller and Lisenne Rockefeller campaigning for the 1998 lieutenant gubernatorial office, October 1998<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Lisenne<\/a>
Lisenne Rockefeller dancing with Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, presumably at Arkansas’s Gubernatorial Inaugural Ball, January 2003<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As lieutenant governor, Rockefeller followed his father’s promotion of Arkansas’s economic interests, traveling at his own expense to seek potential foreign investors and at the same time donating his own governmental salary to charity.<\/p>\n

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Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, circa 2002<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 1998, voters overwhelmingly elected him to a full four-year term, giving him sixty-seven percent of the vote against Kurt Dilday. Four years later in 2002, he was again reelected with sixty percent of the vote against Ron Sheffield.<\/p>\n

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Winthrop Paul Rockefeller on 1998 campaign trail, October 1998<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Rockefeller’s first venture into elected politics came when he won a narrow victory over Charlie Cole Chaffin for lieutenant governor in the November 1996 special election, which was necessitated by the resignation of Governor Jim Guy Tucker, Jr., and the…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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