He received national attention for his Senate work on senior citizens’ and taxpayers’ rights.
David Pryor, an Arkansas governor and U.S. senator who rose to prominence in the 1970s as part of a wave of moderate “New South” Democratic leaders and who became known on Capitol Hill for his work on behalf of senior citizens and helping create the Taxpayer Bill of Rights, died April 20 at his home in Little Rock. He was 89.
Mr. Pryor launched his political career in 1960, serving six years in the Arkansas House of Representatives before winning a special election for the U.S. House of Representatives, followed by two full terms.
Although he was soon to leave the House to make a Senate run, Mr. Pryor garnered critical early congressional support for the creation in 1975 of the House Select Committee on Aging. Until it was shuttered in 1993, the committee held hearings on elder abuse and other related topics concerning older Americans.Maxwell said Mr.
For the four years he was publisher, he challenged Gov. Faubus’s segregationist stances. He editorialized in favor of sending in federal troops when Faubus sparked a crisis in 1957 by trying to prevent Black students from attending Little Rock High School. He later told the Associated Press that his editorials were “an attempt to appeal to reason in a time of great emotions and stress in the state.
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