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Mike Huckabee

American politician and diplomat (born 1955)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 28, 2026
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Michael Dale Huckabee is an American politician, diplomat, and Baptist minister serving as the 29th United States ambassador to Israel since 2025. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 44th governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007, and ran for his party's presidential nomination in both 2008 and 2016. He is the father of Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the current governor of Arkansas since 2023 and a former White House press secretary.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Mike Huckabee” as american politician and diplomat (born 1955). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2025, 1996, 2007, 2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Mike, Huckabee and American can be independently traced.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 28, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2025, 1996, 2007 and 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mike Huckabee” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.