Lowe was sergeant at arms at the 1980 Republican National Convention in Detroit . The Arkansas delegation included Ada Mills of Clarksville , who had received national attention for having been the only delegate in the country initially committed to former Governor John B. Connally , Jr. , for the presidential nomination that year . As state party chairman , Lowe had been technically neutral at the convention , but Lowe and the entire Arkansas delegation routinely voted to nominate Ronald W. Reagan , who would then tap George Herbert Walker Bush of Texas as his vice-presidential choice
1980 Republican National Convention
1980 Republican National Convention
Lynn Lowe