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{{Infobox officeholder
{{Infobox officeholder
| name=James Ray "Jim" Caldwell
| name=James Ray "Jim" Caldwell
| birth_place=Dardanelle, Yell County<br>[[Arkansas]], USA
| birth_place=Dardanelle, Yell County<br>[[Arkansas]], USA
| birth_date=October 29, 1936
| birth_date=October 29, 1936
| residence=Tulsa, Oklahoma
| residence=Tulsa, Oklahoma
| death_date=November 12, 2017 (aged 81)
| death_date=November 12, 2017<br> (aged 81)
| death_place=[[Tulsa]], [[Oklahoma]]
| death_place=[[Tulsa]], [[Oklahoma]]<br>
'''Death cause''':<br>
[[Parkinson's disease]]
| resting_place=Bentonville (Arkansas) Cemetery
| resting_place=Bentonville (Arkansas) Cemetery
| office=Arkansas State Senator for District 9 (then Benton and Carroll counties)
| office=Arkansas State Senator for District 9 (then Benton and Carroll counties)
| preceded=Russell Elrod
| preceded=Russell Elrod
| succeeded=[[Kim Hendren]]
| succeeded=[[Kim Hendren]]
| office2=Chairman of [[Arkansas]] [[Republican Party]]
| office2=Chairman of the<br> [[Arkansas]] [[Republican Party]]
| term_start2=March 1973
| term_start2=March 1973
| term_end2=December 1974
| term_end2=December 1974
| occupation=Minister; after-dinner speaker
| occupation=Minister; after-dinner speaker
| religion=[[Church of Christ]]
| religion=[[Church of Christ]]
| spouse=LaFerne Muller Caldwell
| spouse=Thelma LaFerne Muller Caldwell
| children=Four daughters:<br>
| children=Four daughters:<br>
Vicki Jones<br>
Vicki Jones<br>
Sherri Garner<br>
Sherri Garner<br>
Patti Reese<br>
Patti Reese<br>
Kelli Keltner<b r>
Kelli Keltner<br>
Thirteen grandchildren}}
Thirteen grandchildren}}
'''James Ray Caldwell''', known as '''Jim R. Caldwell''' (October 29, 1936 – November 12, 2017), was a [[Church of Christ]] minister in [[Tulsa]], [[Oklahoma]], who was a [[Republican Party|Republican]] member of the Arkansas State Senate from 1969 to 1978, the first member of his party to sit in the legislative upper chamber in the 20th century. His first two years as a senator corresponded with the second two-year term of [[Winthrop Rockefeller]], the first Republican [[governor]] of [[Arkansas]] since [[Reconstruction]]. Caldwell acted as a point man for Rockefeller in the state Senate.
'''James Ray Caldwell''', known as '''Jim R. Caldwell''' (October 29, 1936 – November 12, 2017), was a [[Church of Christ]] minister in [[Tulsa]], [[Oklahoma]], who was a [[Republican Party|Republican]] member of the Arkansas State Senate from 1969 to 1978, the first member of his party to sit in the legislative upper chamber in the 20th century. His first two years as a senator corresponded with the second two-year term of [[Winthrop Rockefeller]], the first Republican [[governor]] of [[Arkansas]] since [[Reconstruction]]. Caldwell acted as a point man for Rockefeller in the state Senate.
==Background==
==Background==
The Arkansas GOP found it difficult to function without Rockefeller's financial asupport. As time passed, one might conclude that the state GOP had made only minimal progress in its political mission though some of the “good government” programs that it had championed were adopted under Rockefeller and in subsequent administrations beginning with his immediate successor, [[Dale Bumpers]]. In time, the GOP moved beyond Rockefeller's legacy to reflect the pattern of Republican growth in most other southern states, more conservative and less moderate than Rockefeller and Caldwell had championed in Arkansas.<ref>Blair and Barth, ''Arkansas Politics and Government'', pp. 71-72</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.arktimes.com/arkansas/wr-the-progressive/Content?oid=2177478|title=Ernest Clifton Dumas, "WR, the progressive"|publisher=arktimes.com|accessdate=June 3, 2012}}</ref>
The Arkansas GOP found it difficult to function without Rockefeller's financial asupport. As time passed, one might conclude that the state GOP had made only minimal progress in its political mission though some of the “good government” programs that it had championed were adopted under Rockefeller and in subsequent administrations beginning with his immediate successor, [[Dale Bumpers]]. In time, the GOP moved beyond Rockefeller's legacy to reflect the pattern of Republican growth in most other southern states, more conservative and less moderate than Rockefeller and Caldwell had championed in Arkansas.<ref>Blair and Barth, ''Arkansas Politics and Government'', pp. 71-72</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.arktimes.com/arkansas/wr-the-progressive/Content?oid=2177478|title=Ernest Clifton Dumas, "WR, the progressive"|publisher=arktimes.com|accessdate=June 3, 2012}}</ref>
Caldwell died in Tulsa at the age of eighty-one after a long fight with [[Parkinson's disease]]. His services were held at the Crosstown Church of Christ in Tulsa. He is interred at Bentonville Cemetery in Benton County, Arkansas. In addition to his widow, the former Thelma LaFerne Muller (1937-2020), Caldwell was survived by four daughters and their husbands, Vicki Jones (Gary) of Tulsa, Sherri Garner (Reece) of Seligman, Missouri, Patti Reese (Jack) of Tulsa, and Kelli Keltner (Robert) of Aubrey, [[Texas]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.arkansasonline.com/obituaries/2020/jan/08/laferne-caldwell-2020-01-08/#:~:text=Tulsa%2C%20OK%2C%201937%20-%202020%20LaFerne%20Caldwell%2C%2082%2C,and%20graduated%20from%20Central%20High%20School%20in%201955|title=Obituary for LaFerne Caldwell|publisher=Arkansas on-line|date=January 8, 2020|accessdate=December 19, 2020}}</ref><ref name=findagrave>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/185214306/james-ray-caldwell|title=James Ray "Jim" Caldwell|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=December 19, 2020}}</ref>
Caldwell died in Tulsa at the age of eighty-one after a long fight with [[Parkinson's Disease]]. He is interred at Bentonville Cemetery in Benton County, Arkansas.<ref name=findagrave>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/185214306/james-ray-caldwell|title=James Ray "Jim" Caldwell|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=December 19, 2020}}</ref>
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