Stetson Painter is an American politician who has served as a member of the

Arkansas House of Representatives The Arkansas House of Representatives is the lower house of the Arkansas General Assembly, the state legislature of the US state of Arkansas. The House has 100 members elected from an equal number of constituencies across the state. Each distr ...

since January 9, 2023. He represents Arkansas' 3rd House district. In 2024, Painter was selected for the Future Caucus Innovation Fellowship as part of the Criminal Justice cohort.

Electoral history

He was elected on November 8, 2022, in the

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against

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opponent Steven Gene Parsons. He assumed office on January 9, 2023.

Biography

Painter obtained a

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in criminology in 2013 and a

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in public administration in 2016 from

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. He was also a

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er for Congressman Rick Crawford. He also served in the

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. He is a

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References

Republican Party members of the Arkansas House of Representatives Living people People from Mountain Home, Arkansas Arkansas State University alumni 21st-century Baptists Baptists from Arkansas Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century members of the Arkansas General Assembly {{Arkansas-politician-stub