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==Jaycees state president==

==Jaycees state president==

After receipt of the graduate degree in Utah, Coon took a job with a federal agency, the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, in Dumas in Desha County in southeastern Arkansas. He then worked for a farmer in Tuckerman in Jackson County and in 1968 was president of the American Fish Farmers .

After receipt of the graduate degree in Utah, Coon took a job with a federal agency, the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, in Dumas in Desha County in southeastern Arkansas. He then worked for a farmer in Tuckerman in Jackson County and in 1968 was president of the American Fish Farmers .

While in Dumas, Coon joined the Arkansas Jaycees . He was charter president of the Tuckerman Jaycees from 1966 to 1967. The group is now known as the Junior Chamber International. From 1971 to 1972, while in [[Fort Smith]], at which he was a professor at Westark Community College. Coon became the Arkansas state Jaycee president.

While in Dumas, Coon joined the Arkansas Jaycees . He was charter president of the Tuckerman Jaycees from 1966 to 1967. The group is now known as the Junior Chamber International. From 1971 to 1972, while living in [[Fort Smith, Arkansas|Fort Smith]], Coon became the Arkansas state Jaycee president.

==Running for lieutenant governor, 1972==

==Running for lieutenant governor, 1972==

Recruited to run for office by both political parties, he chose the more difficult route in Arkansas: the fledgling Republican Party. It was not even until he ran for lieutenant governor in 1972 that his state party had even won its first presidential election since Reconstruction.

Recruited to run for office by both political parties, he chose the more difficult route in Arkansas: the fledgling Republican Party. It was not even until he ran for lieutenant governor in 1972 that his state party had even won its first presidential election since [[Reconstruction]].

When he announced that he would seek the office of lieutenant governor, Coon was in his third year as a biology instructor at the (then West Ark Community College) in Sebastian County in western Arkansas, the more politically conservative part of the state. He challenged Democratic incumbent (1924-1994), a professor from in Arkadelphia, the seat of Clark County in south central Arkansas. [http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=2458&type=Category&item=Education] Having lost an eye in , Riley wore a trademark black patch. ["Arkansas Gazette", Little Rock, Arkansas, November 5, 1972] . He claimed on several occasions not even "to know" Coon when the Republican entered the race. ["Pine Bluff Commercial", Pine Bluff, Arkansas, November 4, 1972] Coon t

 

When he announced that he would seek the office of lieutenant governor, Coon was in his third year as a biology instructor at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith (then West Ark Community College) in Sebastian County in western Arkansas, the more politically [[conservative]] part of the state. He challenged Democratic incumbent Bob C. Riley(1924-1994), a professor from Ouachita Baptist University, located in Arkadelphia in Clark County in south central Arkansas. [http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=2458&type=Category&item=Education] Having lost an eye in , Riley wore a trademark black patch. ["Arkansas Gazette", Little Rock, Arkansas, November 5, 1972] . He claimed on several occasions not even "to know" Coon when the Republican entered the race. ["Pine Bluff Commercial", November 4, 1972.]