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- Birth nameElizabeth Callan Flanagan
- Betty Bumpers was born on January 11, 1925 in Grand Prairie, Arkansas, USA. She was married to Dale Bumpers. She died on November 23, 2018 in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.
- SpouseDale Bumpers(September 4, 1949 - January 1, 2016) (his death, 3 children)
- First Lady of Arkansas from 1971 to 1975.
- She and Rosalynn Carter worked to establish a nonprofit organization, Every Child By Two (now called Vaccinate Your Family), to increase education efforts concerning vaccine-preventable illnesses.
- She was an advocate for childhood immunizations and for limiting nuclear arms proliferation.
- She grew up on a farm that had no electricity for years. She later lived in Ames, Iowa, and attended Iowa State University, a fine arts institute in Chicago, and the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.
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