Kim Hendren Politician
Kim Dexter Hendren (born February 6, 1938) is a Republican former member of the Arkansas State Senate who served as minority leader and chairman of the Energy Committee. Term-limited, he left the Senate in January 2013. A native and resident of Gravette in Benton County in northwestern Arkansas, Hendren represented District 9, a seat now held by Bruce Holland of Greenwood in Sebastian County. He is a former Democrat in the most Republican section of his state. Hendren was defeated by U.S. Representative John Boozman for his party's nomination for the U.S. Senate in the May 18, 2010 primary to oppose, successfully as it developed, the incumbent Democratic Senator Blanche Lambert Lincoln.In the Republican primary scheduled for May 2014, Hendren will contest the District 92 seat in the Arkansas House being vacated by his term-limited fellow Republican Mary Lou Slinkard of Gravette. Two other candidates seeking the position are Gravette Mayor Byron Warren and the businessman, Kurt Maddox, also from Gravette.
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