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Wednesday, November 06, 2002
Mike Huckabee (R, Incumbent)
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Gov. Mike Huckabee's re-election bid appeared to be in jeopardy when state Treasurer Jimmie Lou Fisher (D) questioned several of his parole decisions and First Lady Janet Huckabee's candidacy for Secretary of State. But the ordained Baptist minister and one-time televangelist won endorsements from police officers and the gun lobby and rebounded in the days before the election, promising to restore funding for state-sponsored college scholarships and other victims of the state's persistent budget troubles. Huckabee, 47, first took office in 1996 after then-Gov. Jim Guy Tucker (D) resigned from office and went to prison for loan fraud. He won re-election in 1998 with 60 percent of the vote.
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