Edwin Ruthvin "Ed" Bethune, Jr. (born December 19, 1935), is a lawyer and lobbyist in Washington, D.C., who was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Arkansas from 1979-1985. His last campaign was an unsuccessful challenge in 1984 to the second-term reelection of Democratic U.S. Senator David Hampton Pryor.
Bethune was born to Edwin Bethune, Sr. and his wife in Pocahontas in far northeastern Arkansas. He graduated...
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Edwin Ruthvin "Ed" Bethune, Jr. (born December 19, 1935), is a lawyer and lobbyist in Washington, D.C., who was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Arkansas from 1979-1985. His last campaign was an unsuccessful challenge in 1984 to the second-term reelection of Democratic U.S. Senator David Hampton Pryor.
Bethune was born to Edwin Bethune, Sr. and his wife in Pocahontas in far northeastern Arkansas. He graduated from Pocahontas High School in 1953. He was a Sergeant in the United States Marine Corps from 1954–1957, with service in South Korea.
After military service, Bethune obtained his bachelor of arts degree in 1961 from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, where he was a member of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity. He received the Juris Doctor degree from the UA Law School in 1963 and was admitted to the Arkansas bar that same year.
That year he began his practice in Pocahontas. In 1972, while he was living in Searcy north of Little Rock, he...
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