governor predecessor successor religion birth_place party office birth_date term_start image article_title term_end name alma_mater
mike beebe winthrop paul rockefeller mark darr roman catholicism north little rock , arkansas , u.s. democratic 14th lieutenant governor of arkansas 30 november 1960 january 9 , 2007 bill halter.jpg bill halter
 january 11 , 2011 bill halter stanford university st john 's college , oxford
bill halter

william a. halter -lrb- born november 30 , 1960 -rrb- was the 14th lieutenant governor of arkansas .
a member of the democratic party , he was elected to succeed the late republican winthrop paul rockefeller in 2006 , defeating republican challenger jim holt by a margin of 57 % -- 43 % .
before his election as lieutenant governor , halter served as the deputy commissioner -lrb- 1999 -- 2001 -rrb- and acting commissioner -lrb- 2001 -rrb- of the social security administration .
he previously worked as a senior adviser in the office of management and budget from 1993 to 1999 .
a native of north little rock , he is a graduate of stanford university and oxford university .
he unsuccessfully challenged two-term incumbent blanche lincoln for the democratic nomination for the u.s. senate , losing in the june 8 , 2010 runoff after neither won a majority in the may primary .
after the bruising primary , lincoln lost to her republican opponent john boozman in the general election .
halter ran for the democratic nomination for governor of arkansas in 2014 but dropped out , citing concerns over a divisive primary hurting democratic chances for the seat , which had not been a concern in 2010 .
