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= Hattie Wyatt Caraway = Copied from article "Hattie Wyatt Caraway" Added citation: In May 1932, Caraway surprised Arkansas politicians by announcing that she would run for a full term in the upcoming election, joining a field already crowded with prominent candidates who had assumed she would step aside. She told reporters, "The time has passed when a woman should be placed in a position and kept there only while someone else is being groomed for the job." ( "CARAWAY, Hattie Wyatt | US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives". history.house.gov. Retrieved 2019-02-15.)

Copied from article "Hattie Wyatt Caraway" Added citation: On February 21, 2001, the United States Postal Service issued a 76-cent Distinguished Americans series postage stamp in her honor. (Arago: 76-cent Hattie W. Caraway". arago.si.edu. Retrieved 2019-02-15.)

Copied from article "Hattie Wyatt Caraway" Added citation: Caraway was a prohibitionist and voted against anti-lynching legislation along with other Southern Democratic senators. (( "CARAWAY, Hattie Wyatt | US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives". history.house.gov. Retrieved 2019-02-15.))

= Leslie Rutledge =

= Leslie Rutledge = '''Leslie Rutledge (born June 9, 1976) is an American lawyer and politician from the U.S. State of Arkansas. A member of the Republican Party, she is the current Attorney General of Arkansas, a position she has held since January 13, 2015. Rutledge is the first Republican and woman to hold this position.'''

Constituent Outreach
Rutledge has hosted ‘Rutledge Roundtables’ with constituents in all 75 Arkansas counties each year. She has also established a Public Integrity Division, and held mobile offices annually in every county. Rutledge also founded a Military and Veterans Initiative and a Cooperative Disability Investigations program.

Rutledge is a self-described defender of the Second Amendment, religious freedom, and pro-life values.

Rutledge ran for re-election to the office of Attorney General in 2018 against Democratic nominee Mike Lee and Libertarian nominee Kerry Hicks. With 98% percent of precincts reporting, Rutledge led with 61.97% of the vote. Lee and Hicks received 35.25% and 2.78% of the vote, respectively.

Personal life
In 2013, Rutledge met Boyce Johnson, a farmer from Marion in Crittenden County in eastern Arkansas, at a convention for the American Farm Bureau Federation. Johnson graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1982 with a B.S. degree in Agriculture. He formerly served as President of the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food, and Life Sciences Alumni Society board of directors. The couple wed in December 2015.[2][3] In April of 2018, Rutledge announced she was expecting her first child, due in August. On 27 July 2018, Rutledge gave birth to a daughter, named Julianna Carol Johnson. In a news release announcing the birth, it was also noted that Rutledge was the first constitutional officer to give birth while holding office.

Electoral history
Arkansas Attorney General Election, 2018