Charlie Daniels (politician)

Arkansas Auditor Charlie Daniels

Charlie Daniels (born December 7, 1939) is an American Democratic Party politician from Arkansas. He is currently Auditor for the state of Arkansas and previously served as Arkansas’s Secretary of State and Commissioner of State Lands.

Early Life and Career

Charlie Daniels was born in Parker's Chapel, Arkansas, and grew up in El Dorado, Arkansas. He attended South Arkansas University, and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. From 1974 to 1980, he served as Director of the Arkansas Department of Labor in the Cabinet of Governor David Pryor until 1979, and was retained in that post for a year under Governor Bill Clinton. He served as Director of Government Affairs for Arkansas Electric Cooperatives from 1980 to 1984.

Statewide offices

In 1984, he was elected as Arkansas Commissioner of State Lands, and was subsequently reelected to four-year terms in 1986, 1990, 1994, and 1998. He was elected as the 32nd Arkansas Secretary of State in 2002, defeating the Republican Party nominee, Janet Huckabee, the wife of then-Governor Mike Huckabee, and was reelected in 2006.

In 2010 he ran for State Auditor, opposed only by Green Party candidate Mary Hughes-Willis. He won the election and took office in January 2011.

References

• Arkansas Secretary of State Biography
• Project Vote Smart Profile

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Name	Daniels, Charlie
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Short description	American politician
Date of birth	December 7, 1939
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