Mark Pryor
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Mark Lunsford Pryor (born January 10, 1963) is an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States Senator from Arkansas from 2003 to 2015.
Although running for office as a Democrat and with Democratic parties, he did not register to vote without having no party identification.
He served as Attorney General of Arkansas from 1999 to 2003, before being senator. Pryor, the son of former Arkansas Governor and the United States, was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Senator David Pryor.
At Fayetteville, Arkansas, he obtained his bachelor's degree and law degree.
He spent many years in private practice before being elected to the Arkansas House of Representatives in 1990.
In 1998, he was elected as the state Attorney General.
In 2001, Pryor announced his candidacy for the Senate seat that his father held from 1979 to 1997.
He was elected with 54% of the vote, defeating Republican incumbent Tim Hutchinson. In 2008, he was reelected with no Republican opposition.
He served as the chairman of the Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance during the 112th Congress.
Pryor ran for reelection in 2014 but Republican Tom Cotton defeated him.
Early life and education
Pryor was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas, to future state First Lady Barbara Jean (Lunsford) and future Governor and United States. Senator David Hampton Pryor, now a state representative, is a member of the American Legion of Pryor. He attended Little Rock Central High School until his father was elected to the United States Senate in 1979, after which he attended Walt Whitman High School in Maryland until graduating in 1981.
He graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1985 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and went on to earn his Juris Doctor from the university's law school in 1988. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity during college.
Personal life
Pryor lives in Little Rock and has a son and a daughter, Adams and Porter. He is married to Joi Pryor. They are members of the First Assembly of God in North Little Rock.
Pryor was diagnosed with clear-cell sarcoma, a rare form of cancer, in his left leg in 1996. His medical and surgical procedures took 15 months, and one doctor warned him that his leg would be amputated, but the cancer was not invasive and his tumor was fully eradicated early enough.
Early career
Pryor worked as a private practice lawyer focusing on civil rights prior to entering politics.
He served in the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1991 to 1995.
He ran for Arkansas Attorney General in 1994, defying incumbent Winston Bryant in the Democratic primary. Pryor suffered 58%-42%. He ran for the same office in 1998 as the Democratic Party nominee for the first time. He defeated Republican nominee Betty Dicky, the Redfield City Attorney, 59%-41%. He took home all but four counties in the state: Benton, Boone, Marion, and Baxter. He was also delegated to the Democratic National Convention in 2000. (ctr())
Post-Senate career
Pryor joined Venable, a D.C.-based law and lobbying company, in March 2015. Pryor served on the Platform Committee for the Democratic National Convention in 2016 and 2020 during the presidential election in the United States.
He was recruited by law and lobbying company Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck in 2020, and compared his prospect to work for the powerhouse firm to "kind of like being able to play football at Clemson or Alabama." Among others, Pryor's customers include drugmaker Eli Lilly and Company, meat processor Tyson Foods, power and natural gas conglomerate Duke Energy, and automobile manufacturer GM.
In 2021, he wrote a piece for The New York Times, which called on President Joe Biden to appoint an aggressive antitrust prosecutor to head the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division. Pryor is a member of the American Council on Capital Formation's Board of Advisors (ACCF).