Ginger Beebe
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Ginger Beebe | |
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| First Lady of Arkansas | |
| In role January 2007 – January 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Janet Huckabee |
| Succeeded by | Susan Hutchinson |
| Personal details | |
| Born | September 3, 1949 |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | Arkansas State University-Beebe University of Central Arkansas |
Ginger Kay Croom Beebe (born September 3, 1949) is an American activist and the wife of former Arkansas governor, Mike Beebe. She served as the first lady of Arkansas, from January 2007 until January 2015.
Beebe was born on September 3, 1949, in Little Rock, Arkansas. She was adopted when she was four years old by Buell Croom, a wholesale distributor for Amoco Oil Company, and Virginia Croom, a homemaker. She was raised in Searcy, Arkansas and attended Searcy High School, where she was a member of the drill team and the choreography board. She attended Arkansas State University-Beebe and the University of Central Arkansas.[1][2]
In 1968, she married David Powell Jr. and the couple lived in Dallas, Texas, while her husband attended mortuary school and then moved to Judsonia, Arkansas, and Searcy. They had two children, David Powell III and Tammy Powell. The couple divorced and Beebe met Mike Beebe, an attorney, while working with the Searcy Junior Auxiliary. They married in 1979. They had one son, named Kyle Houston Beebe.[1]