LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas — Former U.S. Senator, U.S. Representative, and Arkansas Governor David Pryor died Saturday in Little Rock. He was 89 years old. Pryor died of natural causes.
Pryor will lie in state this Friday at the State Capitol from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Services will be Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Second Presbyterian Church in Little Rock. Burial will be next Monday, April 29, at Mount Holly Cemetery in Little Rock.
Pryor was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1965. He lost a bid for the U.S. Senate in 1972 but was elected governor in 1974. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1978 and was in the Senate until 1996.
Current Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders released a statement following Pryor’s passing, which reads in part, “David Pryor’s charisma and moderate politics made him a force at the ballot box for decades. While the Senator and I came up in different political parties, I, like all Arkansans deeply appreciated his diligent stewardship of Arkansas and our interests during his time in public life. And we can all thank him for his role in burying the divisive racial politics that infected Arkansas government before his tenure.”
