Mike Huckabee Biography

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Born: August 24, 1955 (Hope, AR)
Lives in: North Little Rock, Arkansas
Zodiac Sign: Virgo
Height: 5’ 11” (1.8 m)
Family: married wife Janet in 1974, 2 sons John Mark and David and 1 daughter Sarah
Parents: Dorsey Huckabee (from Arkansas) and Mae (Elder) Huckabee (from Arkansas)
Religion: Baptist
Education:
Graduated Ouachita Baptist University (1976) – Major: Religion
Master’s degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (1980)
Career:
Lieutenant governor of Arkansas from 1993 to 1996
Governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007
Books:
-Character Is The Issue: How People with Integrity Can Revolutionize America (1997)
-Kids Who Kill: Confronting Our Culture of Violence (1998)
-Living Beyond Your Lifetime: How To Be Intentional About the Legacy You Leave (2000)
-Quit Digging Your Grave with a Knife and Fork: A Twelve-Step Program to End Bad Habits and Begin a Healthy Lifestyle (2005)
-From Hope to Higher Ground: 12 STOPS to Restoring America's Greatness (2007)

Mike Huckabee is a former governor of Arkansas and a Republican candidate for president in 2008. 

Michael Dale Huckabee was born Aug. 24, 1955, in Hope, Arkansas, the same small town where former U.S. President Bill Clinton was born nine years earlier. 

Huckabee’s strict father worked as a firefighter father who on in his days off worked as a mechanic.  In the mid-sixties, he joined Garrett Memorial Baptist Church and became involved in church activities.   

Timid and a bit of a klutz, Huckabee found salvation in words and music.  He started playing guitar at age 11 (to this day, he occasionally plays bass with the Arkansas rock band, Capitol Offense) and became a champion public speaker and debater.  He preached his first sermon as a teenager.