Jim Guy Tucker (13 June 1943-13 February 2025) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-AR 2) from 3 January 1977 to 3 January 1979 (succeeding Wilbur Mills and preceding Ed Bethune) and Governor of Arkansas from 12 December 1992 to 15 July 1996 (succeeding Bill Clinton and preceding Mike Huckabee).
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Jim Guy Tucker was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas. He served as a freelance war correspondent during the Vietnam War and became a lawyer in 1968, and he served as a prosecuting attorney from 1971 to 1972, on the Arkansas Criminal Code Revision Commission from 1973 to 1975, as Attorney General of Arkansas from 1973 to 1977, in the US House of Representatives from 1977 to 1979, as Lieutenant Governor from 1991 to 1992, and as Governor from 1992 to 1996, assuming office after Bill Clinton was elected President of the United States. In 1996, he was convicted of mail fraud for his role in the Whitewater controversy, resulting in his removal from office.