| Dennis Milligan | |
| Office: | Auditor of Arkansas |
| Term Start: | January 10, 2023 |
| Predecessor: | Andrea Lea |
| Office1: | Treasurer of Arkansas |
| Governor1: | Asa Hutchinson |
| Term Start1: | January 13, 2015 |
| Term End1: | January 10, 2023 |
| Predecessor1: | Charles Robinson |
| Successor1: | Mark Lowery |
| Office2: | Circuit Clerk of Saline County |
| Term Start2: | January 2011 |
| Term End2: | January 13, 2015 |
| Predecessor2: | Doug Kidd |
| Successor2: | Myka Bono Sample |
| Office3: | Chair of the Arkansas Republican Party |
| Term Start3: | May 19, 2007 |
| Term End3: | December 13, 2008 |
| Predecessor3: | Gilbert Baker |
| Successor3: | Doyle Webb |
| Birth Name: | Dennis Lee Milligan |
| Birth Date: | 24 October 1957 |
| Birth Place: | Conway, Arkansas, U.S. |
| Party: | Republican |
| Spouse: | Tina Milligan |
| Education: | University of Arkansas, Little Rock |
Dennis Lee Milligan (born October 24, 1957) is the current Arkansas State Auditor following the 2022 election. He previously served as Treasurer of Arkansas. For that position he won the Republican Party nomination in the primary election on May 20, 2014, and the general election on November 4, 2014.[1] Milligan took office as treasurer on January 13, 2015.
Milligan was born in Conway in Faulkner County, Arkansas.[2] Prior to his election as state treasurer, he was the circuit clerk of Saline County, based in Benton, for two terms from 2011,[1] [3] and an Arkansas businessman for thirty years.[3] Milligan is a former chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party[4] from 2007 to 2008[5] and has served as its treasurer.[6]
Milligan ran against Duncan Baird in the 2014 primary,[7] and his opponents in the general election that year included Democrat Karen Garcia and Libertarian Chris Hayes.[1] Libertarian Ashley Ewald ran against Milligan in the 2018 general election, in which he was re-elected with 71 percent of the vote.[8]
| 2014 Republican Primary Election for Treasurer of Arkansas | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
| Republican | Dennis Milligan | 86,994 | 53 | ||
| Republican | Duncan Baird | 75,673 | 47 | ||
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