Notable Pryors

First Woman in AR Politics - Susie Newton Pryor

Pryor, Susie Newton (1900-1984)
Ms. Pryor was was born in Camden Arkansas, and married William Edgar Pryor in 1927. She was the mother of four children including U.S. Senator David Pryor. She was the first woman to run for elective office in Arkansas after women won the vote and one also one of the first women to hold a school board position. Ms. Pryor was the driving force behind the Camden Community House and the Ouachita County Historical Society. At the age of 56, she served as a missionary in British Guiana for six months. Ms. Pryor's works in the community are remembered by the Arkansas Women's History Institute Susie Pryor award, given each year for the best unpublished paper on women in Arkansas.
-Arkansas Women's History Institute
http://www.ualr.edu/arwomen/biographies.htm#P

1930 Census, Ouachita Co., AR
Camden, Maple St., page 232a, house 606 Edgar PRYOR 30, md. 27, AR AR AR, sales agency, automobiles. Susie wife 29, md. 26, AR AR AR, Edgar Jr. son 2 AR. y(Susie Newton Pryor was the wife of William Edgar Pryor and the mother of US Senator David Pryor. She was the first woman to run for elective office in Arkansas)