Background
Mayberry was born in Pine Bluff in Jefferson County, Arkansas, and reared in Sheridan in Grant County.
Mayberry was born in Pine Bluff in Jefferson County, Arkansas, and reared in Sheridan in Grant County.
He graduated from Sheridan High School.
He authored the Arkansas law, passed over the veto of then Governor Mike Beebe, which bans abortion after twenty weeks of gestation. In his second term in the legislature, Mayberry was an unsuccessful candidate in 2014 for Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas. He lost the Republican primary election on May 20, 2014 to United States. Representative Tim Griffin of Arkansas"s 2nd congressional district.
He received a President"s Scholarship to Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, from which he procured his Bachelor of Arts in journalism.
He was named to Who"s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges. He was affiliated with Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity and editor of the Henderson State student newspaper.
He also worked in campus radio and was a full-time sports editor of the Arkadelphia Daily Siftings Herald. Mayberry is a former communications director for the Arkansas Economic Development Commission, a panel established in 1955 to recruit industries to relocate to the state.
The late Governor Winthrop Rockefeller was the first executive director of the AEDC. In 2000, he ran unsuccessfully for the District 51 seat in the Arkansas House.
In 2006, he was the Republican nominee for Arkansas" 2nd congressional district, a position which he lost to the Democrat Vic Snyder, 124,871 (605 percent) to 81,432 (395 percent). Mayberry ran in the primary election in May 2014 for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor. The Republican incumbent, Mark Darr, had resigned from office in a financial scandal.
Darr had entered the contest for Arkansas" 4th congressional district seat vacated after one term by Republican Tom Cotton but soon withdrew from that race as well.
Cotton went on to unseat handily the Democrat United States. Senator Mark Pryor in 2014. Arkansas Highway Commissioner John Burkhalter, a Democrat, lost the race for lieutenant governor to the Republican nominee, Tim Griffin.
Mayberry worked in communications for Alltel, a former member of the Fortune 500 and for Baptist Health, the largest health care provider in Arkansas.