Janet McCain Huckabee
| Janet McCain Huckabee | |
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| First Lady of Arkansas | |
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In role July 15, 1996 – January 8, 2007 |
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| Governor | Mike Huckabee |
| Preceded by | Betty Tucker |
| Succeeded by | Ginger Beebe |
| Second Lady of Arkansas | |
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In role November 20, 1993 – July 15, 1996 |
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| Governor | Jim Guy Tucker |
| Preceded by | Betty Tucker |
| Succeeded by | Lisenne Dudderar Rockefeller |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Janet McCain July 16, 1955 Lake Charles, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Mike Huckabee (1974–present) |
| Children | 3, including David and Sarah |
| Alma mater |
Ouachita Baptist University John Brown University |
Janet McCain Huckabee (born July 16, 1955) is an American politician, the wife of former 2008 and 2016 Republican presidential candidate and former Arkansas governor, Mike Huckabee. She served as the first lady of Arkansas, from July 1996 until January 2007. She is not related to John McCain.
Huckabee was born in Lake Charles in Calcasieu Parish in southwestern Louisiana, the fourth of five siblings. As an infant, she moved with her family to Hope, Arkansas. She is the daughter of Angus Bouie McCain and the former Pat (Potter) Stephens, who served four two-year terms from 1965 to 1972 as the county clerk for Hempstead County, Arkansas. and She graduated from Hope High School in 1973 and a year later married her high school sweetheart, Mike Huckabee. She holds a bachelor's degree in organizational management from John Brown University.
In 2002, she was the Republican Party nominee for Arkansas secretary of state in the same election that her husband was seeking a second term as governor. She was defeated by the Democratic Party nominee, state land commissioner, Charlie Daniels. Her husband fared better in his re-election bid, having defeated his Democratic opponent, state treasurer Jimmie Lou Fisher.
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