• Mike Huckabee attended Hope High School, in Hope, Arkansas
• In 1973, Huckabee attended Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas and graduated magna cum laude, completing his four-year bachelor's degree in Religion in just two-and-a-half years.
• Following his graduation, he enrolled at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas for one academic year after which he had to drop out of seminary in order to take up a job in Christian broadcasting.
• He worked for several years for televangelist James Robinson and later served as a minister at Baptist churches in Pine Bluff and Texarkana, Arkansas, and as President of two Christian TV operations.
• Huckabee has two honorary doctoral degrees: the Doctor of Humane Letters received from John Brown University in 1991 and the Doctor of Laws from Ouachita Baptist University in 1992.
• This Pastor-turned-Politician is also an Honorary Member of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity.
• While in college, Huckabee worked during the week as a rock 'n roll DJ at the local Radio station in Hope and then spent the weekends preaching at a Baptist Church.
• As a young man, Huckabee dreamed of a career in media or public service. It was by accident that he became a pastor for 12 years. Huckabee remembers, "In 1980, a church in Arkansas asked me to come and speak for them, and I did. Then they asked me to come back and speak again, and I did. And after about four months, they said, why don't you just stay? And that's how I became a pastor"
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