A former governor of Arkansas, Benjamin Travis Laney, was the mayor of Camden in the 1930s. The city is the hometown of former Governor and former U.S. Senator [[David Pryor]]. U.S. Senator [[John McClellan]] also lived in Camden, where he practiced law from 1939 to 1943. Pryor lost the 1972 primary election to McClellan but then won the seat himself in 1978, a year after McClellan's death in office. | A former governor of Arkansas, Benjamin Travis Laney, was the mayor of Camden in the 1930s. The city is the hometown of former Governor and former U.S. Senator [[David Pryor]]. U.S. Senator [[John McClellan]] also lived in Camden, where he practiced law from 1939 to 1943. Pryor lost the 1972 primary election to McClellan but then won the seat himself in 1978, a year after McClellan's death in office. |