calsfoundation@cals.org
February 15, 2009
Marion Berry, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, was born in 1942 in Stuttgart (Arkansas County). By profession a pharmacist and a farmer, Berry entered politics in 1986 when he was appointed to the Arkansas Soil and Water Conservation Commission by Governor Bill Clinton. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from the First Congressional District approximately ten years later.