Richard Carroll (born December 17, 1956, in

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) is an American

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and politician. He ran for District 39 of the

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on the U.S. Green Party ticket on November 4, 2008, during the House elections to succeed Sharon Dobbins, and succeeded in the first Arkansas Green Party electoral victory on the state level. Upon taking office, Carroll became the highest-ranking current office holder of the Green Party of the United States, and the third in the party's history to be elected to a state-level political position. The first was

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, who won election to the

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State Assembly in a Special Election on March 31, 1999, for the

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(but switched to independent a few months later and was defeated seeking re-election in 2000). The second was

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, who served as a member of the

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for the Maine Green Independent Party from 2003 to 2007. On April 29, 2009, Carroll announced that he would leave the Green Party and become a

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. Previous to the 2008 election, Carroll worked as a boilermaker for 30 years, and has been a longtime member of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers. Carroll lost in the May 2010 Democratic primary for re-election to former State Senator Tracy Steele by a vote of 80.3% for Steele and 19.7% for Carroll.Former Arkansas Green Legislator Loses Democratic Primary
''Ballot Access News'', May 18, 2010

References

External links

Carroll's website

Current page of District 39
1956 births American boilermakers American trade unionists Arkansas Greens Living people Democratic Party members of the Arkansas House of Representatives Politicians from Little Rock, Arkansas Green Party of the United States officeholders {{Arkansas-politician-stub