Michael "Mike" Dale Huckabee was born August 24, 1955, in Hope, Hempstead County, Arkansas.
At eleven years of age, Huckabee went to work at KXAR Radio in Hope. Upon entering Ouachita Baptist University, he left KXAR and began working full time for a radio station in Arkadelphia. Huckabee earned his B.A. in religion in 1975 and attended Southwest Baptist Theological Seminary in Ft. Worth, Texas.
Huckabee returned to Arkansas in 1980 where he served as pastor at Immanuel Baptist Church in Pine Bluff and later as pastor at Beech Street Baptist Church in Texarkana. During the 1980s, Huckabee founded Beech Street Communications and started Christian television station KBSC-TV. He served as president of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention for two years starting in 1989.
Huckabee was elected lieutenant governor of Arkansas in a special election in 1993. In 1996 he became the forty-fourth governor of Arkansas when Jim Guy Tucker resigned. Huckabee was reelected to two more terms as governor through 2007.
Since retiring from state office, Huckabee has run for president twice, hosted the Paul Harvey radio show after Harvey's passing, and hosted his own show on Fox News. He has written several books and had a syndicated radio show.
#1: Still frame from Pryor Center interview with Mike Huckabee
© Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas
#2: Still frame from Pryor Center interview with Mike Huckabee
© Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas
#3: Still frame from Pryor Center interview with Mike Huckabee
© Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas
#4: Still frame from Pryor Center interview with Mike Huckabee
© Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas
#5: Still frame from Pryor Center interview with Mike Huckabee
© Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas
