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John Timothy Griffin （born August 21, 1968） is an American lawyer and politician serving as the 20th Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas since 2015.
A member of the Republican Party, he previously was the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas between 2006 and 2007 and U.S. Representative for Arkansas's 2nd congressional district from 2011 to 2015.
Griffin defeated Democrat John Burkhalter in 2014 and has served under Governor Asa Hutchinson since holding the lieutenant governorship.
In summer 2020, Griffin announced his candidacy for the 2022 Arkansas gubernatorial election, but withdrew from the race in February 2021 to run for Arkansas Attorney General instead.
Griffin was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, and reared in Magnolia in Columbia County in southern Arkansas.
He graduated from Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, and in 1994 from Tulane Law School in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Griffin worked from September 1995 to January 1997 with Special Prosecutor David Barrett in the investigation of former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Henry Cisneros.
For two years after that he was the Senior Investigative Counsel for the House Committee on Government Reform.
In September 1999, he became Deputy Research Director for the Republican National Committee （for George W. Bush's election campaign）; while in that position, he was a legal advisor for the "Bush-Cheney 2000 Florida Recount Team" （see Bush v. Gore）.
From March 2001 through June 2002 he was a special assistant to the Assistant Attorney General Michael Chertoff.
From June 2002 to December 2004, Griffin was Resear...