Marion Berry Obituary

Marion Berry was an American politician who was the U.S. representative for Arkansas’s 1st congressional district from 1997 to 2011. He was a member of the Democratic Party.

Berry ran and was elected to a position as a city alderman in Gillet, Arkansas in 1976. He was appointed as a member of the Arkansas Soil and Water Conservation Commission by Governor Bill Clinton in 1986 and continued in that role until 1994.

Barry was the only Democrat to vote against the GIV Act, an act which could expand the AmeriCorps program. On March 21, 2010, Berry joined 33 other Democrats and 178 Republicans and voted no on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Berry was one of the four democrats to vote against the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, joining 155 of 159 Republicans, blocking the vote.

During the 2008 presidential campaign, like most Arkansas Democrats, Berry endorsed US Senator and former First Lady of Arkansas Hillary Clinton for President.