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===Election as U.S. Senator===
===Election as U.S. Senator===
Hutchinson ran for the Senate seat being vacated by popular Democrat [[David Pryor]], who is also a former Arkansas governor (1975-1978). Initially, the leading Republican candidate for the party nomination was Lieutenant Governor [[Mike Huckabee|Michael Dale "Mike" Huckabee]], a former [[Southern Baptist]] pastor. . However, when Democratic Governor James Guy "Jim Guy" Tucker resigned upon his conviction for mail fraud, Huckabee assumed the governorship and dropped out of the Senate race;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=108 |title=Mike Huckabee |publisher=''The Encyclopedia of Arkansas'' |accessdate=April 27, 2020}}</ref>
Hutchinson ran for the Senate seat being vacated by popular Democrat [[David Pryor]], who is also a former Arkansas governor (1975-1978). Initially, the leading Republican candidate for the party nomination was Lieutenant Governor [[Mike Huckabee|Michael Dale "Mike" Huckabee]], a former [[Southern Baptist]] pastor. However, when Democratic Governor James Guy "Jim Guy" Tucker resigned upon his conviction for mail fraud, Huckabee assumed the governorship and dropped out of the Senate race;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=108 |title=Mike Huckabee |publisher=''The Encyclopedia of Arkansas'' |accessdate=April 27, 2020}}</ref>
After Huckabee's exodus from the Senate campaign, Hutchinson won the Republican nomination and defeated in the general election the Democratic Attorney General Winston Bryant, 53 to 47 percent even though native son Bill Clinton defeated [[Bob Dole]] by seventeen points in Arkansas to gain a second termas President.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/u/usa/pres/1996.txt |title=Presidential Elections of 1996 |accessdate=April 27, 2020|publisher=Adam Carr's Election Archive}}</ref>
After Huckabee's exodus from the Senate campaign, Hutchinson won the Republican nomination and defeated in the general election the Democratic Attorney General Winston Bryant, 53 to 47 percent even though native son Bill Clinton defeated [[Bob Dole]] by seventeen points in Arkansas to gain a second termas President.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/u/usa/pres/1996.txt |title=Presidential Elections of 1996 |accessdate=April 27, 2020|publisher=Adam Carr's Election Archive}}</ref>