The Pryor family

A father and son who both represented Arkansas in the U.S. Senate.
Arkansas · Senate · Governor · House
Combined career popular votes
4,013,983
Members on the ballot
2
Combined W–L
8–1
Years on the ballot
1966–2014

David Pryor was a congressman, governor, and three-term U.S. senator from Arkansas. His son Mark Pryor was elected the state’s attorney general and then to two terms in the U.S. Senate, making the Pryors a continuous Arkansas presence from the 1960s into the 2010s.

The Pryor family members, ranked by career popular votes
MemberOfficesYearsCareer popular votesRecord
David H. PryorDGovernor · Senate · House1966–19902,441,74560
Mark L. PryorDSenate2002–20141,572,23821

How this is measured

Combined career popular votes are summed across the 2 family members we track, each counted once across every presidential, U.S. Senate, governor, and U.S. House election in our data. Family membership is hand-curated and verified against primary sources, never matched by surname alone, so unrelated namesakes are never folded in. A vote for a presidential ticket counts for both the president and the vice-presidential candidate, matching how each profile reports its own totals.

Compiled by PolitiFinder · published June 14, 2026 · sources: Data & sources.