Charlotte Tillar Schexnayder (December 25, 1923 – December 11, 2020) was an American journalist and politician who served in the

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from the 74th district from 1985 to 1999. In 2019 she was inducted into the

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. Together with her late husband, Melvin J. Schexnayder, she owned and published the ''Dumas Clarion'' weekly newspaper in

Dumas, Arkansas Dumas is a city in Desha County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 4,706 at the 2010 census. History In 1870, a planter, merchant and surveyor of French descent, William B. Dumas, bought acres of farmland from the Abercrombie Holmes f ...

from 1954 to 1998. Schexnayder died on December 11, 2020, in

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at the age of 96.

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