Timothy Boyd Lemons, known as Tim Lemons (born 1962) is a self-employed

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from Cabot,

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, who was a

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member of the

Arkansas House of Representatives The Arkansas State House of Representatives is the lower house of the Arkansas General Assembly, the state legislature of the US state of Arkansas. The House is composed of 100 members elected from an equal amount of constituencies across the ...

for District 43 in

Lonoke County Lonoke County is located in the Central Arkansas region of the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 68,356, making it the 11th-most populous of Arkansas's 75 counties. The county seat is Lonoke and largest city is ...

from 2015 to 2019. He was elected in 2014 to succeed the

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Davy Carter Russell Davis Carter, known as Davy Carter (born March 31, 1975), is the Republican former Speaker of the Arkansas House of Representatives, a position which he held from 2013 to 2015. A resident of Cabot in Lonoke County, Carter represented Dis ...

, a Cabot businessman who from 2013 to 2014 was the House Speaker. In his first term in office, Lemons sat on the committees for (1) Revenue and Taxation, (2) City, County and Local Affairs, and (3) Joint Committee on Energy. Lemons graduated from

Louisiana Tech University Louisiana Tech University (Louisiana Tech, La. Tech, or simply Tech) is a public research university in Ruston, Louisiana. It is part of the University of Louisiana System and classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activ ...

in Ruston,

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. He is affiliated with the Cabot

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, the

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, the Lonoke County Republican Committee,

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, the Lonoke Exceptional Development Center. He and his wife, Janice, have two children. He is a

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. In February 2015, Lemons joined dozens of his fellow Republicans and two Democrats in co-sponsoring legislation submitted by Representative

Lane Jean Samuel Lane Jean (born November 10, 1958) is a Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives for District 2, which includes parts of Lafayette, Miller, and Columbia counties in south Arkansas. He has held the District 2 seat since ...

to reduce

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benefits. The measure was promptly signed into law by

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Asa Hutchinson William Asa Hutchinson II (, '' AY-sə''; born December 3, 1950) is an American attorney, businessman, and politician who is the 46th and current governor of Arkansas. A member of the Republican Party, he was the U.S. attorney for the Fort Smit ...

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