Mark Pryor
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United States Senator from Arkansas |
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In office January 3, 2003 – January 3, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Tim Hutchinson |
| Succeeded by | Tom Cotton |
| 53rd Attorney General of Arkansas | |
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In office January 12, 1999 – January 3, 2003 |
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| Governor | Mike Huckabee |
| Preceded by | Winston Bryant |
| Succeeded by | Mike Beebe |
| Member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from the 57th district |
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In office January 1991 – January 1995 |
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Mark Lunsford Pryor January 10, 1963 Fayetteville, Arkansas, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Jill Pryor (Divorced) Joi Pryor |
| Children | Adams Porter |
| Alma mater | University of Arkansas (B.A., J.D.) |
| Religion | Southern Baptist |
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| Website | Senate website |
Mark Lunsford Pryor (born January 10, 1963) is an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Arkansas from 2003 to 2015. He is a member of the Democratic Party, and he was Attorney General of Arkansas from 1999 to 2003.
Born in Fayetteville, Arkansas, Pryor is the son of former Arkansas Governor and U.S. Senator David Pryor. He received his bachelor's degree and law degree from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. He worked in private practice for several years until being elected to the Arkansas House of Representatives in 1990. He was elected the state Attorney General in 1998. Pryor announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate in 2001, running for the same Senate seat his father had held from 1979 to 1997. He was elected with 54 percent of the vote.
He was re-elected with no Republican opposition in 2008. During the 112th Congress he served as the chairman of the Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance. Pryor ran for re-election in 2014, but lost to Representative Tom Cotton.
Pryor was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas, to the former state First Lady Barbara Jean (Lunsford) and former Governor and U.S. Senator David Hampton Pryor. He attended Little Rock Central High School and Walt Whitman High School in Maryland, graduating in 1981. He graduated from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in 1985 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and went on to receive his Juris Doctor from the university's law school in 1988. During college, he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
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