Keith Ingram
{{Short description|American politician}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Keith Ingram
|office = Minority Leader of the Arkansas Senate
|term_start = January 15, 2013
|term_end = January 9, 2023
|predecessor = Ruth Whitaker
|successor = Greg Leding
|state_senate1 = Arkansas
|district1 = 24th
|term_start1 = January 15, 2013
|term_end1 = January 9, 2023
|predecessor1 = Jimmy Jeffress
|successor1 = Missy Irvin
|state_house3 = Arkansas
|district3 = 53rd
|term_start3 = January 2009
|term_end3 = January 15, 2013
|predecessor3 = Denny Sumpter
|successor3 = Homer Lenderman
|office4 = 11th Mayor of West Memphis
|term_start4 = 1987
|term_end4 = 1994
|predecessor4 = Leo Chitman
|successor4 = Al Boals
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1955|4|12}}
|birth_place = West Memphis, Arkansas, U.S.
|death_date =
|death_place =
|party = Democratic
|education = University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
University of Mississippi, Oxford {{small|(BA)}}
|relatives = Bill Ingram {{small|(Father)}}
|website = {{URL|keithingramforarkansas.com|Campaign website}}
}}
Keith M. Ingram (born April 12, 1955) is an American politician from the state of Arkansas. A member of the Democratic Party, Ingram represents the 24th district in the Arkansas Senate, of which he is the Minority Leader. Ingram's district includes Crittenden County and parts of Cross, Lee, Phillips and St. Francis counties in eastern Arkansas.
He previously represented the 53rd district in the Arkansas House of Representatives for from January 2009 – January 2013 and served as mayor of West Memphis, Arkansas.
Career
While he was Senator-elect, Ingram was selected as the Democrats' Minority Leader to succeed the party's former Majority Leader Robert F. Thompson of Paragould in Greene County in northeastern Arkansas.{{cite press release|url=https://senate.arkansas.gov/?do%3AnewsDetail=1&news_id=381 |title=Arkansas Senate |publisher=Arkansas.gov |date=2012-11-13 |access-date=2013-10-26}}{{cite web|url=http://www.helena-arkansas.com/article/20121206/NEWS/121209786/1001 |title=Ingram elected minority leader in State Senate|newspaper=The Helena Arkansas Daily World|date=2012-12-06 |access-date=2013-10-26}} He considered running for Governor of Arkansas, in the 2014 election, when the incumbent Democrat Mike Beebe was term-limited but did not file for the higher office.{{cite web|url=http://www.thv11.com/news/article/245680/2/Ingram-considering-run-for-Ark-governor |title=Ingram considering run for Ark. governor |publisher=KTHV|date=2013-01-29 |access-date=2013-10-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029193519/http://www.thv11.com/news/article/245680/2/Ingram-considering-run-for-Ark-governor |archive-date=2013-10-29 }}
Ingram is a member of National Conference of State Legislatures, the Council of State Governments and the Southern Legislative Conference. With NCSL, he serves on the Law & Criminal Justice Standing Committee and sits on the Annual Meeting Committee for CSG. In addition to serving as 2014 chairman of the Southern Legislative Conference, he sits on the Energy & Environment Committee.
Business career
Ingram currently serves as vice president of Razorback Concrete Company, a family-owned business in West Memphis.
Family
Ingram's father, William K. Ingram, was an Arkansas state senator from 1963 until 1981, while his brother, Kent Ingram, served for nine years in the state Senate.
References
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External links
- [http://www.keithingramforarkansas.com Official Website]
- [http://razorbackconcrete.com Razorback Concrete Company]
- [http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2013/2013R/Pages/MemberProfile.aspx?member=K.%20Ingram Arkansas Legislature - Member Profile]
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Category:Democratic Party Arkansas state senators
Category:20th-century mayors of places in Arkansas
Category:Democratic Party members of the Arkansas House of Representatives
Category:21st-century members of the Arkansas General Assembly
Category:People from Crittenden County, Arkansas
Category:People from West Memphis, Arkansas
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
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