Lynn Lowe
| Lynn Lowe | |
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Lowe in undated photograph
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| Arkansas Republican Party State Chairman | |
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In office December 1974 – June 1980 |
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| Preceded by | Jim R. Caldwell |
| Succeeded by |
Jeraldine D. Pruden (interim) |
| Republican National Committeeman from Arkansas | |
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In office June 1980 – 1988 |
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| Preceded by | John Paul Hammerschmidt |
| Succeeded by | Robert "Bob" Leslie |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Aylmer Lynn Lowe March 6, 1936 Texarkana, Miller County Arkansas, USA |
| Died | August 14, 2010 (aged 74) Garland, Miller County |
| Political party | Republican nominee for Governor of Arkansas, 1978 |
| Spouse(s) | Nedra Jean Bledsoe Lowe |
| Children |
Michael Lynn Lowe |
| Parents | Luther and Ruth McKinley Lowe |
| Residence | Garland, Arkansas |
| Alma mater |
Garland City (Arkansas) High School |
| Occupation | Farmer; Businessman |
| Religion | Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod |
| For more than a quarter century, Lowe was a pioneer in the attempt to establish a two-party system in the historically Democratic state of Arkansas. Since his death, the state moved primarily into the Republican column. | |
Jeraldine D. Pruden (interim)
Michael Lynn Lowe
Evelyn Ruth Lowe
Garland City (Arkansas) High School
Southern Arkansas University
Aylmer Lynn Lowe, known as A. Lynn Lowe (March 6, 1936 – August 14, 2010), was a farmer and politician from Garland near Texarkana in Miller County in southwestern Arkansas, who was a major figure in the Arkansas Republican Party. He was the Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1978 against the Democrat Bill Clinton, served as state party chairman from 1974 to 1980, and was the GOP candidate in Arkansas's 4th congressional district in 1966, having been defeated by the Democrat David Pryor, then a state representative and a future governor and U.S. Senator, originally from Camden in Ouachita County in south Arkansas.
Lowe was born in Texarkana to Jesse Luther Lowe, Sr. (1890–1967), and the former Ruth McKinley (1894–1987), originally from Waldo in Nevada County in southern Arkansas. He graduated from Garland High School and attended Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia for two years before he received in 1959 his Bachelor of Science degree in agricultural engineering from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. He farmed his entire life near the Red River and for a time also raised cattle. Lowe was married to the former Nedra Jean Bledsoe, originally from Boyce in northern Rapides Parish north of Alexandria in central Louisiana. The Bledsoes relocated to Miller County, where Jena's father operated a cotton gin. Lynn and Jean Lowe have a son, Michael Lynn Lowe (born 1959), also a farmer, and wife, Diana; two daughters, Ruth Evelyn Lowe of Garland City and Martha Lowe Robertson and husband, Chris, of Little Rock, and three grandchildren. Also Lynn Lowe truly loved his grandchild Warren Patrick Robertson. Warren loved his Papa as well. Lynn Lowe had a surviving brother Robert McKinley Lowe of Weems, Virginia, and two sisters Jean Davis of Mesa, Arizona, and Dot Fisher of Ames, Iowa. He was predeceased by a brother, Jesse Luther Lowe, Jr. Lowe was long active in the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod in Texarkana, Texas.
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