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==Congressional race==

==Congressional race==

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A lifelong Republican, Lowe served from 1962to 1964 as the Republican chairman for Arkansas' 4th congressional district. In 1962, he worked in the campaign of the Little Rock [[physician]] Kenneth  to 1966.<ref name=lowe/> In 1966, he ran for the U.S. House seat when the [[incumbent]], Oren Harris of El Dorado  resigned in February to accept appointment from [[U.S. President]] [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] and confirmation by the U.S. Senate as judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas, based in [[Fort Smith, Arkansas|Fort Smith]]. A [[special election]] was held simultaneously with the regular 1966 [[general election]] to fill the few weeks left in Harris' unexpired term. The seat was hence vacant from February to November 1966.<ref>''Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report,'' July 22, 1966, p. 1492.</ref>​

A lifelong Republican, Lowe served from 1962 to 1964 as the Republican chairman for Arkansas' 4th congressional district. In 1962, he worked in the campaign of the Little Rock [[physician]] Kenneth  to 1966.<ref name=lowe/> In 1966, he ran for the U.S. House seat when the [[incumbent]], Oren Harris of El Dorado  resigned in February to accept appointment from [[U.S. President]] [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] and confirmation by the U.S. Senate as judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas, based in [[Fort Smith, Arkansas|Fort Smith]]. A [[special election]] was held simultaneously with the regular 1966 [[general election]] to fill the few weeks left in Harris' unexpired term. The seat was hence vacant from February to November 1966.<ref>''Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report,'' July 22, 1966, p. 1492.</ref>

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Pryor first won a hard-fought Democratic primary against the Texarkana [[attorney]] Richard S. Arnold, then a son-in-law of the media owner Walter E. Hussman, Sr. In the general election, Pryor carried all twenty counties, including Lowe's Miller County, which gave the Republican only 46.8 percent though it had supported Republican gubernatorial nominee [[Winthrop Rockefeller]] against the more [[conservative]] Democrat (later Republican) [[James D. Johnson]]. Pryor received 86,887 votes (65 percent) to Lowe's 46,804 (35 percent).<ref>State of Arkansas, Secretary of State, Election returns, November 8, 1966.</ref> Lowe ran as a |conservative and refused to deny or confirm reports that he had formerly belonged to the [[John Birch Society]]. Lowe had told voters that they could repudiate President Johnson in 1966, when Johnson's name was not on the ballot, by supporting the Republican congressional campaign. He urged "local determination of local problems", and David Pryor stressed his record as one of the "Young Turks" of the Arkansas House of Representatives.<ref>''Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report,'' October 7, 1966, p. 2353.</ref>​

Pryor first won a hard-fought Democratic primary against the Texarkana [[attorney]] Richard S. Arnold, then a son-in-law of the media owner Walter E. Hussman, Sr. In the general election, Pryor carried all twenty counties, including Lowe's Miller County, which gave the Republican only 46.8 percent though it had supported Republican gubernatorial nominee [[Winthrop Rockefeller]] against the more [[conservative]] Democrat (later Republican) [[James D. Johnson]]. Pryor received 86,887 votes (65 percent) to Lowe's 46,804 (35 percent).<ref>State of Arkansas, Secretary of State, Election returns, November 8, 1966.</ref> Lowe ran as a |conservative and refused to deny or confirm reports that he had formerly belonged to the [[John Birch Society]]. Lowe had told voters that they could repudiate President Johnson in 1966, when Johnson's name was not on the ballot, by supporting the Republican congressional campaign. He urged "local determination of local problems", and David Pryor stressed his record as one of the "Young Turks" of the Arkansas House of Representatives.<ref>''Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report,'' October 7, 1966, p. 2353.</ref>​