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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 4, 2004

Contact: Eric Gerber
713.743.8189 (office)
713.617.7130(pager)
egerber@uh.edu

Dale Bumpers, who served as U.S. Senator for Arkansas from 1975-1999, will speak at the University of Houston Law Center at 11 a.m., Tuesday, Oct. 5.

The event, to be held in Krost Hall Auditorium at the UH Law Center, is free and open to the public.

His presentation, “The Best Lawyer in a One-Lawyer Town,” is based on the Random House autobiography published last year. It chronicles his journey from an impoverished, Depression-era childhood in Arkansas, where his father operated a combination hardware store and funeral home, to a career as one of the nation’s most prominent politicians. In large part, it focuses on Bumpers’ attempt to practice law in his small hometown, with “no office, no library, no clients.”

In 1970, the Democrat ran for governor and, following that, was elected to four consecutive terms in the U.S. Senate. Two weeks after Bumpers left the Senate, then-President Bill Clinton called him with an urgent plea to make the closing argument in his impeachment trial. That speech is considered by many as a classic of political oratory.

Bumpers’ appearance is the third annual John Mixon Society lecture, an event held to honor that UH Law Center professor.

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