Instead, he ran for the Senate, but narrowly lost in the Democratic primary to Governor David Pryor.
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In 1990, Thornton ran for Congress in the Little Rock-based district and won by a comfortable margin over the Republican nominee, Jim Keet, then a state representative and the 2010 GOP gubernatorial nominee.
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In 2009, he became the first chairman of the Arkansas Lottery Commission, which operates the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery.
Arnold was beaten again in the 1972 congressional primary by then Attorney General Ray Thornton, of Sheridan in Grant County.
The parties to the case were U.S. Term Limits, a non-profit advocacy group, and the politician Ray Thornton, among others.
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