Timothy Boyd Lemons, known as Tim Lemons (born 1962) is a self-employed

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from Cabot,

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, who was a Republican member of the

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for District 43 in Lonoke County from 2015 to 2019. He was elected in 2014 to succeed the

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Davy Carter Russell Davis Carter, known as Davy Carter (born March 31, 1975), is the Republican former Speaker of the Arkansas House of Representatives, a position which he held from 2013 to 2015. A resident of Cabot in Lonoke County, Carter represented Di ...

, a Cabot businessman who from 2013 to 2014 was the

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. In his first term in office, Lemons sat on the committees for (1) Revenue and Taxation, (2) City, County and Local Affairs, and (3) Joint Committee on Energy. Lemons graduated from

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. He is affiliated with the Cabot

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, the

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, the Lonoke County Republican Committee,

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, the Lonoke Exceptional Development Center. He and his wife, Janice, have two children. He is a

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. In February 2015, Lemons joined dozens of his fellow Republicans and two Democrats in co-sponsoring legislation submitted by Representative

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to reduce

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benefits. The measure was promptly signed into law by

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