Education
Lowery graduated in 1975 from Sylvan Hills High School in Sherwood in Pulaski County.
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Lowery graduated in 1975 from Sylvan Hills High School in Sherwood in Pulaski County.
He holds a Bachelor in Communication from the University of Arkansas - Fayetteville. In the year 2000, he obtained a master"s degree in Communication from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. Since 2003, he has been a speech instructor and debate coach at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway in Faulkner County near Little Rock.
He was previously Executive Director of the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors in Arkansas, a lobbyist for the Arkansas Rental Dealers Association and the Professional Insurance Agents of Arkansas.
Lowery served as a chief of staff to former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, an unsuccessful candidate for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination. He then defeated the Democrat Kelly Halstead, 6,687 to 6,071, in the November 6 general election.
Incumbent Republican Editor Garner was term limited after holding the office for three terms.Lowery serves on these House committees: (1) Education and (2) City, County and Local Affairs Committee. Lowery has a strongly conservative legislative voting record.
He joined the needed simple majority to override the vetoes of Democratic Governor Mike Beebe, Huckabee"s successor, to enact legislation requiring photo identification for casting a ballot in Arkansas and to ban abortion after twenty weeks of gestation.
He was a co-sponsor of both of these bills. Lowery voted to ban abortion whenever fetal heartbeat is detected, to forbid the inclusion of abortion in the state insurance exchange, and to make the death of an unborn child a felony in certain cases. He voted for curriculum standards for Bible instruction in public schools and backed legislation to allow handguns on church properties.
He voted to empower university officials to carry weapons in the name of campus safety.
He voted to make the office of prosecuting attorney in Arkansas nonpartisan. He co-sponsored the bill, signed by Governor Beebe, to permit the sale of up to five hundred gallons per month of unpasteurized whole milk directly from the farm to consumers.
Communion and Water Baptism are symbolic acts of obedience to the teaching of Jesus in the New Testament.
Government is ordained by God to reward good and to punish evil.
The strong feature of Baptism is the role of local people take for the fabric of church buildings and manses and for the handling of money.