John Timothy Griffin is an American politician serving as the 20th and current Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas. He previously was the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas between 2006 and 2007 and U.S. Representative for Arkansas’s 2nd congressional district from 2011 to 2015. Griffin announced his candidacy for the 2022 Arkansas gubernatorial election in summer 2020.
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John Timothy Griffin is an American politician serving as the 20th and current Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas. He previously was the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas between 2006 and 2007 and U.S. Representative for Arkansas’s 2nd congressional district from 2011 to 2015. In summer 2020, Griffin announced his candidacy for the 2022 Arkansas gubernatorial election. Griffin was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, and reared in Magnolia in Columbia County in southern Arkansas. In April 2005, Griffin began working at the White House as Karl Rove’s aide, with the title of Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Director in the Office of Political Affairs. In June 2007, Senators Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island asked the U. S. Justice Department to investigate whether Griffin led an RNC effort to suppress the African-American vote in Jacksonville, Florida, through caging during the 2004 election.
There was no finding of any wrongdoing. In September 2008, the Inspector General in the Department of Justice issued a report concluding that Griffin had not been removed for any reasons related to his performance, but rather to a a classified White House email. On May 30, 2007, Griffin resigned from his position effective June 1, 2007 with a tearful speech declaring that public service was “not worth it.” On May 31, 2009, The New York Times reported that Karl Rove had lobbied for Griffin to be appointed to be Attorney General Bud Cummins’s successor. In late 2008, The Washington Post reported that Griffin was in discussions with the then-nascent campaign of Fred Thompson for a top-level post.
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