James Everett Lendall (born March 20, 1947) is an American

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, and

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. Lendall was the 2010

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candidate for Arkansas governor. Lendall, a former

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from

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, was elected to four terms in the state legislature as both a

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and an

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. Lendall finished fourth in the 2006 gubernatorial race with 12,593 votes for 1.7% of the total vote.

Early life and education

James Lendall was born in Beverly, Massachusetts, in 1947. Lendall served in the

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from 1969 to 1971. He graduated from the

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with a Bachelor of Arts in political science and history in 1974 and from the

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with a Bachelor of Science in nursing in 1985. He worked at the

and is currently a

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. Lendall joined the

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in 2005 and is currently one of the party's two representatives on the

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References

Jim Lendall Official Website
1947 births Living people American nurses Politicians from Little Rock, Arkansas Arkansas Democrats Arkansas Greens University of Arkansas at Little Rock alumni University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences alumni Members of the Arkansas House of Representatives People from Beverly, Massachusetts Politicians from Essex County, Massachusetts United States Army soldiers Male nurses Arkansas independents {{Arkansas-politician-stub