Jim Keet | |
State Senate: | Arkansas |
District: | 15th |
Term Start: | January 1993 |
Term End: | January 1997 |
Predecessor: | Constituency established |
Successor: | Jim Argue |
State House1: | Arkansas |
District1: | 58th |
Term Start1: | January 1989 |
Term End1: | January 1991 |
Predecessor1: | Dana Moreland |
Successor1: | Paul Doramus |
Birth Date: | 12 May 1949 |
Birth Place: | Springfield, Missouri, U.S. |
Party: | Republican |
Spouse: | Margaret Osborn |
Children: | 4 |
Education: | Southern Methodist University (BBA) |
James Holland Keet (born May 12, 1949), is an American restaurateur and politician in Little Rock, Arkansas, and a former member of the Arkansas House of Representatives and Arkansas Senate. Keet was the Republican nominee for governor of Arkansas in 2010, but lost the race in a landslide to incumbent Democrat Mike Beebe. [1] He was also previously the Republican nominee for Arkansas's 2nd congressional district in 1990, losing to Democrat Ray Thornton.[2]