Kenneth Henderson
Kenneth Lee Henderson, known as Ken Henderson, is a real estate developer from Russellville, Arkansas, who is a Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives for District 71 in Pope County in the north central portion of his state.
Henderson graduated from the University of Arkansas in the capital city of Little Rock. He, has three children. He is a Baptist and a member of Ducks Unlimited, the Chamber of Commerce, and Rotary International. He previously lived in Little Rock, Benton, Bryant, and Ozone, Arkansas, dates unavailable.
Henderson ran without opposition in both the Republican primary election and the general election for the legislative seat vacated by Andrea Lea, a fellow Republican who was instead elected Arkansas State Auditor on November 4, 2014 in the Republican sweep of state offices. Henderson is assigned to the House committees on: Public Health, Welfare, and Labor, and City, County, and Local Affairs.
In February 2015, Henderson joined dozens of his fellow Republicans to support House Bill 1228, sponsored by Bob Ballinger of Carroll County, which sought to prohibit government from imposing a burden on the free exercise of religion. The measure passed the House, seventy-two to twenty. One of the opponents, Democratic Representative Camille Bennett, a former city attorney for Lonoke, Arkansas, called for a reworking of the legislation. Bennett claimed the Ballinger bill would establish a "type of religious litmus test" which could impact nearly any law under consideration by the legislature. The measure was subsequently passed by a large margin in the House and signed into law in revised form, SB 975, by Governor Hutchinson.
