Sanders Orders Flags to Half-Staff on April 8, 2023  – Arkansas Governor – Sarah Huckabee Sanders

WHEREAS:    Roy C. “Invoice” Lewellen was born in Lee County and raised in Marianna, Arkansas;

WHEREAS:    Senator Lewellen was the second Black individual to serve within the Arkansas Senate within the twentieth century;

WHEREAS:    In 1991, Senator Lewellen was the lead sponsor of the legislation that created the Arkansas Minority Well being Fee, a physique whose mission is to extend entry to inexpensive and preventative well being care and work to forestall illnesses and situations which might be   prevalent amongst minority populations;

WHEREAS:    In 1992, Senator Lewellen served as an lawyer for the historic Lake View College District in Phillips County—a case that finally led to how Arkansas adequately funds public training; 

WHEREAS:    In 1993, Senator Lewellen was the lead sponsor within the State Senate for the Arkansas Civil Rights Act of 1993, a fruits of the work of the Governor’s Process Power on Civil Rights;

WHEREAS:    Upon his passing, former Governor Mike Huckabee, a Republican, who served in workplace concurrently Senator Lewellen, a Democrat, stated of Lewellen: “he was foremost a real public servant and a statesman.”

WHEREAS:    The individuals of Arkansas are impressed by the management and legacy of Senator Lewellen and can always remember his dedication to creating Arkansas a greater place to stay, work, and lift a household for all our residents;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS, performing beneath the authority vested in me as Governor of the State of Arkansas, do hereby order that america flag and the state flag of Arkansas be flown at half-staff all through the State from dawn to sundown on Saturday, April 8, 2023, the day of internment, in tribute to the reminiscence of Senator Roy C. “Invoice” Lewellen. 

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I’ve hereunto set my hand and precipitated the Nice Seal of the State of Arkansas to be affixed this sixth day of April, within the 12 months of our Lord 2023.