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The Republican Party of Arkansas (RPA) is the affiliate of the United States Republican Party in Arkansas.
Contents
- History
- Republican allied groups
- Tusk Club
- Current elected officials
- US Senate
- US House of Representatives
- Statewide offices
- State Legislature
- Past Republican state chairmen
- References
The party is led by state chairman Doyle Webb, who was re-elected to serve a third term in December 2012. Webb, an attorney and former State Senator, was once chief of staff for the late Lieutenant Governor Winthrop Paul Rockefeller
The RPA's headquarters is on West 6th Street in downtown Little Rock. Heather McKim serves as Finance Director. Isaac Foley serves as Political Directors for the 1st and 2nd Districts. Sarah Jo Reynolds serves as Political Director for the 3rd and 4th Districts. Shannon Haney serves as Special Projects Manager.
History
The United States Republican Party, or GOP, is the second oldest currently existing political party in the United States after its older rival, the Democratic Party.
Both parties exist in all fifty states. Historically, prior to the late 20th century, the Republican Party was much weaker than the Democrats in the former Confederate States of America, including Arkansas.
The Arkansas party did not hire its first paid executive director until 1970, when businessman Neal Sox Johnson, then of Nashville, Arkansas, assumed the position in the last year of Winthrop Rockefeller second term as governor of Arkansas. Johnson help the position until early in 1973, when he left Arkansas to take a high position with the former Farmers Home Administration in Washington, D.C..
Between 2010 and 2014, Arkansas Republicans won all four U.S House seats, both U.S Senate seats, majorities in both houses of the state legislature and all of the statewide offices.
Republican allied groups
There are five groups and these groups are: Arkansas Republican Hispanic Assembly, Arkansas Black Republican Caucus, Arkansas Federation of College Republicans, Arkansas Federation of Young Republicans and Arkansas Federation of Republican Women.
Tusk Club
The Tusk Club is another arm of the Arkansas Republican Party.
Current elected officials
The Arkansas Republican Party controls all of the state's seven statewide offices. Republicans also hold both of the state's U.S. Senate seats and all four of the state's U.S. House seats.