Fonda F. Hawthorne (born 1956) is a former one-term member of the Arkansas House of Representatives. She represented the 4th district from 2013 to 2015 for the

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. She served on the Public Transportation, City County and Local Affairs, and Legislative Joint Auditing committees.

Career

Prior to running for the Arkansas House of Representatives, Hawthorne was a member of the De Queen- Sevier County Chamber of Commerce. She ran for election for the 4th district of Arkansas in 2012, and served in the House of Representatives from 2013 to 2015 under the Democratic Party. She was defeated for reelection on November 4, 2014, by

DeAnn Vaught DeAnn Kay Vaught (born 1970) is a farmer from Horatio, Arkansas, who is a Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives for District 87. Vaught graduated from Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia. She is affiliated with the Fa ...

, a

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farmer from Horatio, Arkansas. Vaught won by a 59-41 margin in a general Republican sweep of Arkansas elections. In 2019, Hawthorne was sentenced to four months in jail for

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money from the Ashdown- Little River County Chamber of Commerce to buy alcohol and tobacco, which she claimed was the result of alcoholism, which she went to rehab for.

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