Barney Alan Sugg was born on April 29, 1938, in Helena, Phillips County, Arkansas.
Sugg earned a B.A. from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. While in college, he participated in ROTC and received a Regular Army commission. He went on to earn an M.A. in higher education administration at the university and a Ph.D. in the same field at the University of Oklahoma.
Sugg served as the president of the University of Texas A&M, Corpus Christi. He became the president of the University of Arkansas System in 1990 and served until his retirement in 2011. Under Sugg's leadership, the system expanded to include the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith, five community colleges, the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute, the Criminal Justice Institute, the Clinton School of Public Service and the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and Arts.
#1: Composite image of still from Pryor Center video interview and childhood photo of B. Alan Sugg
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#2: Portrait of B. Alan Sugg
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#3: Willie Best with grandson, B. Alan Sugg, and dog, Penny
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#4: Barney and Louise Sugg with their children, B. Alan, Joe and Anne, 1944
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#5: B. Alan Sugg is the groom in the Tom Thumb Wedding; Helena, Arkansas
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#6: B. Alan Sugg in junior high
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#7: B. Alan Sugg, 8th grade, 13 years old; Helena, Arkansas
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#8: B. Alan Sugg, 9th grade; Helena, Arkansas
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#9: B. Alan Sugg crowns Jean Bussell (Sugg) the 9th-Grade Homecoming Queen; Helena, Arkansas
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#10: Jean Bussell (Sugg), 13, is the junior high homecoming queen, and B. Alan Sugg, 14, is the football captain; Helena, Arkansas, 1951
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#11: B. Alan Sugg is #20
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#12: Helena Track Team, B. Alan Sugg, 2nd row, 2nd from left
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#13: B. Alan Sugg
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#14: B. Alan Sugg, portrait
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#15: B. Alan Sugg, color portrait
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#16: B. Alan Sugg and Jean Bussell (Sugg) at a carnival; Helena, Arkansas, 1954
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#17: Jean Bussell (Sugg), 4th from right; B. Alan Sugg, far right, at Boys and Girls State, 1955
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#18: Jean Bussell (Sugg) and B. Alan Sugg in a yearbook picture titled: "Mr. and Miss Central High;" Helena, Arkansas
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#19: B. Alan Sugg, freshman year at the University of Arkansas
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#20: B. Alan Sugg and Jean (Bussell) Sugg, Sigma Chi "Girl of My Dreams" dance, University of Arkansas, 1957
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#21: Barney and Louise Sugg with their sons, Joe and Jim, 1957
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#22: B. Alan Sugg and Jean Bussell (Sugg) at the ROTC US Army Military Ball, University of Arkansas
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#23: B. Alan Sugg and Jean Bussell Sugg on their wedding day at West Helena First Baptist Church; on left: Fulton and Virginia Simpson, Jean's stepfather and mother; on right: Louise and Barney Sugg, Alan's parents; June 8, 1960
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#24: B. Alan Sugg and Jean Bussell Sugg on their wedding day; Alan's father, Barney Sugg, back left; June 8, 1960
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#25: B. Alan Sugg in army dress uniform, 1961
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#26: B. Alan and Jean Sugg with their dog, Doagie, Christmas Eve, 1961
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#27: B. Alan Sugg; Worms, Germany, 1962
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#28: B. Alan Sugg, center; Germany, 1962
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#29: Army Headquarters; Worms, Germany, 1961-63
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#30: B. Alan and Jean Sugg with daughter, Katie, October 1963
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#31: B. Alan and Jean Sugg with daughters, Jenifer and Katie
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#32: Barney and Louise Sugg, parents of B. Alan Sugg, with an unidentified woman
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#33: Jenifer, Raidu, B. Alan, and Katie Sugg, 1977
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#34: B. Alan Sugg, chancellor of Corpus Christi State University, speaks at commencement, May 14, 1982
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#35: Henry Cisneros and B. Alan Sugg, October 4, 1982
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#36: B. Alan Sugg, portrait, 1983
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#37: B. Alan Sugg and Jim Mattox, Texas Attorney General, 1988
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#38: B. Alan and Jean Sugg with their daughter Katie's dog, Daisy, 1989
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#39: Jean and B. Alan Sugg with Texas State Senator Carlos Truan; Corpus Christi, Texas, 1989
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#40: B. Alan Sugg accepting job as president of the University of Arkansas System, February 1990
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#41: B. Alan and Jean Sugg with General Norman Schwarzkopf
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#42: B. Alan Sugg, portrait, 1992
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#43: B. Alan and Jean Sugg, portrait, 1992
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#44: Sugg family, top left side to bottom: B. Alan Sugg, Katie Sugg Gunter, Virginia Sampson, Jackson White, Jeff White; top right side to bottom: Cliff Gunter, Jean Sugg, Jenifer Sugg White, Mitchell White
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#45: Reynie Rutledge, Gary George, B. Alan Sugg, Jim Lindsey, and Jean Sugg at the Arkansas vs. Texas football game
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#46: B. Alan and Jean Sugg with President Bill Clinton at the home of Jim Blair, November 6, 1998
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#47: Chuck Dicus and B. Alan Sugg, December 3, 1999
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#48: B. Alan Sugg with University of Arkansas Razorback mascot
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#49: John McDonnell and B. Alan Sugg, June 2003
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#50: B. Alan Sugg, in a classroom in Old Main on the University of Arkansas campus, Fayetteville
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#51: Still frame from Pryor Center video interview with B. Alan Sugg at the UA System president's home; Little Rock, Arkansas, 2008
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