Leon Griffith
| Louis Leon Griffith | |
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| Born |
January 19, 1936 Almyra, Arkansas County Arkansas, USA |
| Died | July 13, 2010 (aged 74) Hensley Pulaski County, Arkansas |
| Residence |
(1) Pine Bluff Pulaski County Arkansas, USA |
| Occupation | Master plumber |
| Political party | Republican gubernatorial nominee, 1976 |
| Spouse(s) | Not mentioned in obituary |
| Children |
Sherry Carlon |
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Griffith's purpose as a gubernatorial nominee in 1976 was to poll at least 3 percent of the vote to keep his Republican Party automatically on the next ballot in 1978. He finished with less than 17 percent of the vote, having been defeated by the incumbent Democrat David H. Pryor.
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(1) Pine Bluff
Jefferson County, Arkansas
Sherry Carlon
Toni Griffith
Tammy Griffith
Deborah Jennings
Louis Leon Griffith (January 19, 1936 – July 13, 2010) was a master plumber from North Little Rock, who was the Arkansas Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1976, losing the election to Democratic incumbent Governor David H. Pryor.
Griffith was born in Almyra, a small town in Arkansas County in eastern Arkansas, to the late Henry T. Griffith and the former Lennie Opal Golden, later Lennie Davis (1914–2008).
Even after Griffith's entry into the gubernatorial race, reports surfaced that the GOP leadership had earlier approached former Democratic Governor Orval E. Faubus, who had lost to Pryor in the 1974 primary, about switching parties and running again for governor in the 1976 general election. The liberal Republican Ripon Society, which had supported former Republican Governor Winthrop Rockefeller, termed the suggestion, if true, "an ignominious end to the reform heritage" that the GOP had earlier championed in Arkansas. Faubus and Republican leaders denied that such talk ever even occurred.
To make the race against Pryor, the GOP had recruited James E. "Jim" Lindsey (born 1944), an insurance broker then from Fayetteville and a former football player for the University of Arkansas and the Minnesota Vikings. Lindsay, however, filed as a Democrat and ran as a conservative against Pryor, under whom there had been a 20 percent increase in violent crime in Arkansas during 1975. After Lindsay declined the Republican offer, the party permitted Griffith to run as an essentially placeholder nominee.
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