... Senate elected Sen. Paul Bookout, D-Jonesboro, to lead the chamber in 2011. Bookout, the son of the late Sen. Jerry Bookout, will succeed Senate President Bob Johnson, D-Bigelow. Shortly before recessing, the House gave final approval ...

No one could leave a telephone message like Jerry Bookout. "Hey, Johnny," he'd begin, not needing to identify himself by name. The casual, irreverent, hang-dog baritone provided ...

LITTLE ROCK (AP) - Paul Bookout, son of longtime legislator Jerry Bookout, was sworn in Friday to the state Senate seat vacated by his father's death. The younger Bookout was elected to his father ...

... soared more oratorically. Jodie Mahony sponsored more bills and always looked busier. David Malone and Jerry Bookout -- yes, Jerry Bookout -- were consistently underestimated. But the best all-round state legislator in the more than two decades ...

... 300 is approved, UCA President Lu Hardin said, but top students won't be turned away. The bill, sponsored by Jerry Bookout, D-Jonesboro, would limit spending for academic and performance scholarships to 30 percent of tuition and fee income ...

... but Tucker seemed to know public support was nonexistent for reducing the number of districts from 324 to 34, Sen. Jerry Bookout, D-Jonesboro, recalled in an interview Friday. Tucker announced he was taking his plan to a public meeting in ...

... General Assembly. Besides Higginbothom, the other 15 senators-elect all are current or former House members except Jerry Bookout of Jonesboro, who ended 24 years in the Senate in 1996. "You cannot really appreciate serving until you sit in this ...

... time, Wilson was the most powerful member of the Senate. His power eroded dramatically in 1991, when then-Sen. Jerry Bookout, D-Jonesboro was president pro tempore. Bookout and Sens. Mike Beebe, D-Searcy, and Morril Harriman, D ...

... public lobbyist for Arkansas State University. Beebe attended there and served on the board of trustees. With the late Jerry Bookout, he was long ASU's chief legislative champion. Beebe and Harriman were whiz-kid state senators, seemingly joined ...

... slightly. Also worth watching on the area's political front is the big Democratic primary for the state Senate. Jerry Bookout, a longtime and progressive state legislator who retired six years ago, wages his political comeback against the ...