November 8, 1975

Jim Guy Tucker, who later became Arkansas’s forty-third governor, married Betty Allen; they had four children. Tucker’s administration carried Arkansas from the end of the Bill Clinton administration—during which Tucker essentially acted as governor the last year because of Clinton’s campaigning for president—to the beginning of the Mike Huckabee gubernatorial administration, which remained in power long enough to be stopped only by term limits. In his personal life, Tucker weathered political challenges, survived health problems, and faced a criminal indictment.