1. Aylmer Lynn Lowe, known as A Lynn Lowe, was an American businessman and politician from Garland near Texarkana in Miller County in southwestern Arkansas, who was a major figure in the Arkansas Republican Party.
13 Facts About Lynn Lowe
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Lynn Lowe was the Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1978 against the Democrat Bill Clinton, served as state party chairman from 1974 to 1980, and was the GOP candidate in Arkansas's 4th congressional district in 1966, having been defeated by the Democrat David Pryor, then a state representative and a future governor and US Senator, originally from Camden in Ouachita County in south Arkansas.
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Lynn Lowe graduated from Garland High School and attended Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia for two years before he received in 1959 his Bachelor of Science degree in agricultural engineering from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.
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Lynn Lowe farmed his entire life near the Red River and for a time raised cattle.
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Lynn Lowe found few issues on which to challenge Clinton until the Democrat announced his opposition to a referendum to remove the state sales tax on groceries and prescription drugs.
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Lynn Lowe noted a $40 million state surplus and urged repeal of the taxes.
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Lynn Lowe was termed "a living monument to the god 'Charisma'".
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Lynn Lowe received 195,550 votes and won six counties: Sebastian, Crawford, Boone, Polk, Van Buren, and his own Miller.
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Lynn Lowe won 49.8 percent in Franklin, near Fort Smith and the home base of then US Senator Dale L Bumpers.
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Lynn Lowe was sergeant at arms at the 1980 Republican National Convention in Detroit.
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In 2000, Lowe was a donor to Republican presidential candidate George W Bush, successful in a close electoral vote over Clinton's vice president, Al Gore Jr.
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Lynn Lowe was the board chairman of the Southwest Arkansas Electric Cooperative Commission in Texarkana.
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Lynn Lowe died at the age of seventy-four at his home in Garland, Arkansas.