Ed Bethune

|birth_place = Pocahontas, Arkansas, U.S. |death_date = |death_place = |occupation = Attorney; former FBI agent |office1=Member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
from Arkansas's 2nd district |term_start1 = January 3, 1979 |term_end1 = January 3, 1985 |preceded1 = Jim Guy Tucker |succeeded1 = Tommy F. Robinson |office2 = Prosecuting Attorney for the First Judicial District of Arkansas |term_start2 = 1970 |term_end2 = 1971 |office = Chair of the Arkansas Republican Party |term_start = 1986 |term_end = 1988 |preceded = Len E. Blaylock |succeeded = Ken Coon |party = Republican |residence = Little Rock, Arkansas |spouse = Lana Bethune |children = 2 |education = University of Arkansas (BA, JD) |branch= United States Marine Corps |serviceyears= 1954-1957 |rank = Sergeant }}

Edwin Ruthvin Bethune Jr. (born December 19, 1935), known as Ed Bethune, is an American lawyer, lobbyist, and novelist in Little Rock, Arkansas, who was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Arkansas from 1979-1985. Provided by Wikipedia