Frank D. White

Frank Durward White was the 41st Governor of the U.S. state of Arkansas. He served a single twoyear term from 1981 to 1983. He is one of two people to have defeated Bill Clinton in an election, the other being former U.S. Representative John Paul Hammerschmidt of Harrison, Arkansas.

White was born on June 4, 1933 in Texarkana in Bowie County, Texas, as Durward Frank Kyle, Jr. His father, Durward Frank Kyle, died when White was seven, and Whites mother, the former Ida Bottoms Clark, married Loftin E. White of Highland Park, Texas. He took his stepfathers name and became Frank Durward White. After the death of the stepfather in 1950, the Whites returned to Texarkana. White enrolled in the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, New Mexico but was subsequently recommended to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, by then U.S. Senator John L. McClellan of Arkansas. He graduated from the academy with a bachelor of science degree in engineering in 1956. He also excelled in the study of Spanish. Though he was a Naval Academy graduate, White became a pilot in the United States Air Force. White was discharged from the Air Force in 1961 with the rank of Captain.

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