CONWAY — Long before Obama, Bush and Clinton, there was Gravel.
Former U.S. Sen. Mike Gravel, the last Democrat senator to serve from Alaska, started a trend at The Conway Daily Sun that has continued right up through the last election cycle, becoming the first person to sign Ice Box One, the Sun’s presidential refrigerator.
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