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==Background==

==Background==

A native of Rockford,  [[Illinois]], Hammer was reared in the community of Damascus, Arkansas, which straddles[Van Buren and Faulkner counties near Little Rock. He graduated from South Side High School in Bee Branch in Van Buren County. He holds a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree in Biblical Counseling from Trinity College of the Bible in Newburgh, [[Indiana]]. He has been a [[Southern Baptist]] pastor since 1979 and chaplain of the Saline Memorial Hospice in Benton since 2006. He is a member of the First Baptist Church of Benton, Arkansas.<ref name=house/>

A native of Rockford,  [[Illinois]], Hammer was reared in the community of Damascus, Arkansas, which straddles Van Buren and Faulkner counties near Little Rock. He graduated from South Side High School in Bee Branch in Van Buren County. He holds a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree in Biblical Counseling from Trinity College of the Bible in Newburgh, [[Indiana]]. He has been a [[Southern Baptist]] pastor since 1979 and chaplain of the Saline Memorial Hospice in Benton since 2006. He is a member of the First Baptist Church of Benton, Arkansas.<ref name=house/>

==Political life==

==Political life==