Trevor Drown

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Ronald Trevor Drown, II
Member of the Arkansas House of Representatives
from the 68th district
Assumed office
January 2015
Personal details
Born c. 1970
Russellville, Pope County
Arkansas, USA
Political party Libertarian-turned-Republican
Spouse(s) Kara Drown
Children Ayden and Ella Drown
Parents Ronald S. and Donna F. Drown
Residence Dover, Pope County
Arkansas, USA
Alma mater Arkansas Tech University
Occupation Businessman
Former military officer
Religion Missionary Baptist
Military service
Service/branch United States Army

United States Air National Guard

United States Air Force Reserve

Ronald Trevor Drown, II (born c. 1970),[1] is a former military officer and businessman from Dover, Arkansas, who is a Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives for District 68 in Pope and Van Buren counties in the north central portion of his state.[2]

Background

Drown is named for his grandfather, R. Trevor Drown, I (born c. 1922).[1] He received a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish from Arkansas Tech University in Russellville, his original home city.[3] Drown served in the United States Army and its Special Forces, popularly called the Green Berets, the United States Air National Guard, and the United States Air Force Reserve, dates of service not available. A small businessman, he was also formerly employed as a driver for United Parcel Service.[3]

Drown and his wife, Kara, have two children, Ayden and Ella.[3] Drown is a member of the Missionary Baptist denomination.[2]He previously lived in Russellville, Dardanelle, and London, all in Pope County.[4]

Political life

In 2010, Drown was the Libertarian Party nominee for the United States Senate from Arkansas. He finished a weak third in the balloting with 25,234 votes (3.2 percent). Victory went to John Boozman, the Republican nominee and an outgoing member of the United States House of Representatives from Arkansas's 3rd congressional district. Boozman unseated the Democratic incumbent Blanche Lincoln.

Drown joined the Republican Party to contest the District 68 state House seat vacated by the term-limited Republican Robert E. Dale. To gain the Republican nomination, he first handily defeated in the May 20 primary election two intra-party rivals, Zachary Tyler Sellers and Ingram Philips. [5] Philips served for thirty years in the U.S. Army and holds a Ph.D. in divinity from Drew University in Madison, New Jersey.[6]

Drown then won handily in the November 4 general election over the Democrat Tachany Evans, 9,847 votes (77.9 percent) to 2,222 (22.1 percent).[7] Coincidentally, Evans, an African-American woman, had, like Drown, received a bachelor's degree in Spanish from Arkansas Tech.[8]

Drown is assigned to the House committees on: (1) Judiciary, (2) State Agencies, and (3) Joint Committee on Energy.[2]In February 2015, Drown joined dozens of his fellow Republicans and two Democrats in co-sponsoring legislation submitted by Representative Lane Jean of Magnolia, to reduce unemployment compensation benefits. The measure was promptly signed into law by Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson.[9]

In the 2015 legislative session, Republican House member Nate Bell of Mena joined with the African-American Democrat Charles Blake of Little Rock in an unsuccessful effort to sever Martin Luther King Day and the Robert E. Lee holiday, which are both observed in Arkansas on the third Monday of January. Bell proposed that Lee's holiday be transferred to November 30, a "Southern Heritage Day" to correspond with the birthday of a Confederate States Army general from eastern Arkansas, Patrick Cleburne, who was killed in the American Civil War in Franklin, Tennessee. Only two citizens spoke in a public hearing on the Blake-Bell measure; twenty-four signed to speak in opposition. Alabama and Mississippi also observe a combined King-Lee Day. Representative Drown opposed the plan. He said that should remain unique on the issue and not copy the majority of states because "it's our heritage."[10]

References

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External links

Preceded by Arkansas State Representative for
District 68 (Pope and Van Buren counties)

Ronald Trevor Drown, II
2015–

 Succeeded by
Incumbent
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