Dennis Milligan

{{short description|American politician}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Dennis Milligan

|office = Auditor of Arkansas

|governor = Sarah Huckabee Sanders

|term_start = January 10, 2023

|term_end =

|predecessor = Andrea Lea

|successor =

|office1 = Treasurer of Arkansas

|governor1 = Asa Hutchinson

|term_start1 = January 13, 2015

|term_end1 = January 10, 2023

|predecessor1 = Charles Robinson

|successor1 = Mark Lowery

|office2 = Circuit Clerk of Saline County

|term_start2 = January 2011

|term_end2 = January 13, 2015

|predecessor2 = Doug Kidd

|successor2 = Myka Bono Sample

|office3 = Chair of the Arkansas Republican Party

|term_start3 = May 19, 2007

|term_end3 = December 13, 2008

|predecessor3 = Gilbert Baker

|successor3 = Doyle Webb

|birth_name = Dennis Lee Milligan

|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1957|10|24}}

|birth_place = Conway, Arkansas, U.S.

|death_date =

|death_place =

|party = Republican

|spouse = Tina Milligan

|education = University of Arkansas, Little Rock

}}

Dennis Lee Milligan (born October 24, 1957) is the current Arkansas State Auditor following the 2022 election. He previously served as Treasurer of Arkansas. For that position he won the Republican Party nomination in the primary election on May 20, 2014, and the general election on November 4, 2014.{{cite news |url=http://www.katv.com/story/27278852/gops-milligan-wins-arkansas-treasurer-race |title=GOP's Milligan wins Arkansas treasurer race |date=November 4, 2014 |access-date=December 22, 2014 |publisher=KATV |agency=Associated Press }} Milligan took office as treasurer on January 13, 2015.

Milligan was born in Conway in Faulkner County, Arkansas.{{cite news |url=http://www.carrollconews.com/story/2058587.html |title=State treasurer candidate Dennis Milligan visits county GOP |date=February 25, 2014 |access-date=December 24, 2014 |first=Landon |last=Reeves |newspaper=Carroll County News |quote=He said he was born in Conway |archive-date=April 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402182725/https://www.carrollconews.com/story/2058587.html |url-status=dead }} Prior to his election as state treasurer, he was the circuit clerk of Saline County, based in Benton, for two terms from 2011,{{cite news |url=http://www.carrollconews.com/story/2076590.html |title=Meet your candidates: Early voting in May 20 election begins Monday |date=May 2, 2014 |access-date=December 24, 2014 |first=Landon |last=Reeves |newspaper=Carroll County News }} and an Arkansas businessman for thirty years. Milligan is a former chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party{{cite news |url=http://www.fox16.com/story/d/story/milligan-wins-race-for-arkansas-treasurer/13563/LOYefcl1ykubtVj5uZeA3Q |title=Milligan Wins Race for Arkansas Treasurer |publisher=FOX16 |date=November 5, 2014 |access-date=December 22, 2014 }} from 2007 to 2008{{cite news |url=http://firstarkansasnews.net/2010/11/the-winners-circle-dennis-milligan-saline-county-circuit-clerk/ |title=The Winner's Circle — Dennis Milligan, Saline County Circuit Clerk |publisher=First Arkansas News |date=November 8, 2010 |access-date=December 22, 2014 |last=Nobles |first=Ethan C. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141222184140/http://firstarkansasnews.net/2010/11/the-winners-circle-dennis-milligan-saline-county-circuit-clerk/ |archive-date=December 22, 2014 |url-status=usurped }} and has served as its treasurer.{{cite news |url=http://www.baxterbulletin.com/story/news/local/2014/10/22/milligan-touts-transparency/17733477/ |title=Election 2014: Milligan touts transparency |first=Joseph |last=Price |date=October 22, 2014 |access-date=December 24, 2014 |newspaper=The Baxter Bulletin |publisher=Gannett Satellite Information Network }}

Milligan ran against Duncan Baird in the 2014 primary,{{cite news |url=http://swtimes.com/news/politics/election-2014-private-option-overshadows-gop-primaries-arkansas |title=Election 2014: 'Private Option' Overshadows GOP Primaries In Arkansas |last=DeMillo |first=Andrew |agency=Associated Press |newspaper=Southwest Times Record |date=March 17, 2014 |access-date=December 24, 2014 }} and his opponents in the general election that year included Democrat Karen Garcia and Libertarian Chris Hayes. Libertarian Ashley Ewald ran against Milligan in the 2018 general election, in which he was re-elected with 71 percent of the vote.{{cite web |url=https://ballotpedia.org/Arkansas_Treasurer_election,_2018 |title=Arkansas Treasurer election, 2018 |access-date=December 11, 2018 |website=Ballotpedia }}