October 29, 2012

In 1992, Governor Bill Clinton won the U.S. presidential election, and shortly before Clinton’s inauguration in 1993, Lieutenant Governor Jim Guy Tucker was sworn in as the state’s forty-third governor. A special election was called to fill the open lieutenant governor position. Michael Dale Huckabee ran and won the position. In 1994, he won a comfortable reelection with fifty-eight percent of the popular vote. Huckabee went on to serve three terms as governor.