Arkansas News Bureau

LITTLE ROCK — Gov. Mike Beebe on Monday named former U.S. Sen. David Pryor to the University of Arkansas Board of Trustees.

Pryor, also a former Arkansas governor, congressman and state legislator, replaces Jim Lindsey, whose 10-year term expired March 1.

“Sen. Pryor’s name is synonymous not only with Arkansas, but with the U of A as well,” Beebe said. “It is my honor to fulfill David’s wish to help guide the university he has loved and served for his entire adult life.”

Pryor, 74, is a Camden native and graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1957. He served in the state House of Representatives from 1960 to 1966, in the U.S. House from 1966 to 1973, as governor from 1975 to 1979 and in the Senate from 1979 to 1997. His son, Mark, holds his former Senate seat.

David Pryor was named the first dean of the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service, and Arkansas’ flagship university named its Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History for him and his wife, Barbara.

He has occasionally returned to his alma mater to teach political science courses at the Fayetteville campus where he earned both bachelor and law degrees.

Pryor is on the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and has previously served as director of the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.