John Timothy Griffin was born on August 21,1968 and is an American lawyer and politician serving as the 57th attorney general of Arkansas.
23 Facts About Tim Griffin
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Tim Griffin previously served as the 20th lieutenant governor of Arkansas, from 2015 to 2023.
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In summer 2020, Tim Griffin announced his candidacy for the 2022 Arkansas gubernatorial election, but withdrew from the race in February 2021 to run for Arkansas Attorney General instead.
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Tim Griffin was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, and reared in Magnolia in Columbia County in southern Arkansas.
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Tim Griffin graduated from Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, and in 1994 from Tulane Law School in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Tim Griffin worked from September 1995 to January 1997 with Special Prosecutor David Barrett in the investigation of former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Henry Cisneros.
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From June 2002 to December 2004, Tim Griffin was Research Director and Deputy Communications Director for Bush's 2004 reelection campaign, a high-ranking position within the RNC.
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In June 2007, Senators Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island asked the US Justice Department to investigate whether Tim Griffin led an RNC effort to suppress the African-American vote in Jacksonville, Florida, through caging during the 2004 election.
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Tim Griffin called the allegations of voter suppression "absolutely, positively false" and there was no finding of any wrongdoing.
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In September 2006, after ending a one-year military mobilization assignment, Tim Griffin began working as a special assistant to US Attorney Bud Cummins in the Eastern District of Arkansas.
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On December 15,2006, the Justice Department announced that Tim Griffin would be appointed interim US Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, effective December 20,2006, the date when the resignation of Cummins took effect.
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Tim Griffin was among the first group of interim attorneys appointed by the Attorney General without a term limit.
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Gonzales's decision to bypass confirmation for Tim Griffin particularly angered Arkansas's then Democratic senators, Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor, who both stated that Gonzales promised them Tim Griffin would go before the Senate for confirmation.
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Documents released by a subsequent congressional investigation showed that, in the summer of 2006, White House officials wanted a vacant slot in the US Attorney's office in Little Rock so that Tim Griffin could fill it.
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On May 31,2007, The Washington Post reported speculation that Tim Griffin was in discussions with the then-nascent presidential campaign of Fred Thompson for a top-level post.
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In late May 2008, columnist Robert Novak reported that Tim Griffin had been named as the RNC's director of research for the presidential campaign of Senator John McCain of Arizona.
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Tim Griffin was assigned to direct opposition research, "although final arrangements have not been pinned down," Novak said.
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On September 21,2009, Tim Griffin announced that he was running for Congress, to replace Democrat Vic Snyder who stepped down after fourteen years in Arkansas' 2nd congressional district.
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Tim Griffin defeated the Democratic nominee Joyce Elliott, then the outgoing Majority Leader of the Arkansas Senate.
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In 2009, Tim Griffin signed a pledge sponsored by Americans for Prosperity promising to vote against any Global warming legislation that would raise taxes.
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When he explained why he had introduced the bill, Tim Griffin argued that, although he believed the Obama Administration's unilateral decision to delay the mandate was illegal, he still believed delaying the mandate was a good way to save jobs and protect workers.
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Tim Griffin was the Republican nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas in the 2014 elections.
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Tim Griffin attended Immanuel Baptist Church, a Southern Baptist congregation in Little Rock.