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Fonda Hawthorne

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Fonda F. Hawthorne
Member of the Arkansas House of Representatives
from the 4th district
In office
2013–2015
Preceded byLane Jean
Succeeded byDeAnn Vaught
Personal details
Born1956
Stuttgart, Arkansas County
Arkansas, US
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseSteve Hawthorne
Children2
Residence(s)Ashdown, Little River County
Arkansas
Alma materTexarkana College
Ouachita Baptist University
OccupationEconomic Development Officer

Fonda F. Hawthorne (born 1956) is a former one-term member of the Arkansas House of Representatives. She represented the 4th district from 2013 to 2015 for the Democratic Party. She served on the Public Transportation, City County and Local Affairs, and Legislative Joint Auditing committees.

Career

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Prior to running for the Arkansas House of Representatives, Hawthorne was a member of the De Queen-Sevier County Chamber of Commerce.[1]

She ran for election for the 4th district of Arkansas in 2012, and served in the House of Representatives from 2013 to 2015 under the Democratic Party. She was defeated for reelection on November 4, 2014, by DeAnn Vaught, a Republican farmer from Horatio, Arkansas. Vaught won by a 59-41 margin in a general Republican sweep of Arkansas elections.[2]

In 2019, Hawthorne was sentenced to four months in jail for embezzling money from the Ashdown-Little River County Chamber of Commerce to buy alcohol and tobacco, which she claimed was the result of alcoholism, which she went to rehab for.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Lieb, David A. (15 Sep 1999). "Minority population continues to grow in the United States". The Hanford Sentinel. p. 8. Retrieved 20 Jun 2023.
  2. ^ "Arkansas 2014 general election results". thv11.com. Retrieved December 23, 2014.
  3. ^ Heyen, Curtis (2019-05-22). "Former Ark. lawmaker, chamber director sentenced to prison over theft". KSLA. Retrieved 2023-06-20.