Herb Rule, Little Rock lawyer and former Arkansas legislator, dies at 87
Herbert C. Rule III, longtime lawyer with Little Rock's Rose Law Firm, a former state legislator and one-time candidate for U.S. Congress, died Mon...
Herbert C. Rule III, longtime lawyer with Little Rock's Rose Law Firm, a former state legislator and one-time candidate for U.S. Congress, died Monday. He was 87. Rule defeated then-state Rep. Paul Van Dalsem of Perryville in 1966 and served two terms in the state House. It was during that campaign that Van Dalsem, reacting to the large number of women working for Rule, issued his famous comment that women should be kept barefoot and pregnant, said Renie Rule, Rule's wife of 20 years. 'Herb was using so many women in his campaign that somebody asked [Van Dalsem] what he thought, and that's when he came out with that remark,' she recalled.