Greg Standridge

Gregory Brian Standridge (May 6, 1967 – November 16, 2017) was an insurance agent from Russellville, Arkansas, who was a Republican member of the Arkansas State Senate for District 16, which includes Newton and Pope counties and parts of Boone, Carroll and Van Buren counties in the northern portion of his state.[1][2]

Standridge graduated from Russellville High School and earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in 1987 from Arkansas Tech University in Russellville.[3] He has worked in insurance since 1987 and also owns Access Self Storage Company. He was a constable for Pope County, a volunteer firefighter, and was the president of the Pope County Fair Board. He is affiliated with Lions International and the Masonic lodge. He was a member of the First Baptist Church of Russellville. He and his wife, Karen Sue Flegel Standridge (born c. 1966), had four children.[4]

Standridge won a low-turnout special runoff election held on February 10, 2015, to succeed fellow Republican Michael Lamoureux, who resigned in November 2014 to become chief of staff in the new state administration of Governor Asa Hutchinson. Standridge defeated fellow Republican Stan J. Berry, 2,675 votes (53.6 percent) to 2,313 (46.4 percent).[1]

Though he was elected in mid-February, Standridge was not allowed to fill the vacant Senate seat until April 2015.[5] He died of cancer on November 16, 2017.[6]