Crawford County
Arkansas
PoliticalGraveyard.com
Crawford County
Arkansas
Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Crawford County
Index to Locations
| Politicians buried here: | |||||||
James Woodson Bates (1788-1846) —
of Arkansas.
Born in Goochland
County, Va., August
25, 1788.
Son of Thomas Fleming Bates (1742-1803) and Caroline Matilda
(Woodson) Bates (born 1751).
Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Arkansas Territory, 1819; state court judge
in Arkansas, 1828.
Died in Van Buren, Crawford
County, Ark., December
26, 1846 (age 58 years, 123
days).
Interment in a private or family graveyard.
| |||||||
| Politicians formerly buried here: | |||||||
Mathew C. Moore (1837-1877) —
Born near Van Buren, Crawford
County, Ark., April 24,
1837.
Son of Elizabeth Moore.
Member of Arkansas
state house of representatives, 1875.
Died in Van Buren, Crawford
County, Ark., April 24,
1877 (age 40 years, 0
days).
Original interment at in a private or family graveyard; reinterment
in 1915 at Forest
Park Cemetery, Fort Smith, Ark.
| |||||||
| Politicians buried here: | |
|
William James McCuen (c.1943-2000) —
also known as Bill McCuen —
of Hot Springs, Garland
County, Ark.; Heber Springs, Cleburne
County, Ark.
Born in Fort Smith, Sebastian
County, Ark., about 1943.
Democrat. School
teacher; Arkansas
land commissioner, 1981-85; secretary of
state of Arkansas, 1985-94; defeated in primary, 1994; candidate
for U.S.
Representative from Arkansas 4th District, 1992.
After leaving office as Secretary of State, he admitted
accepting kickbacks
from two supporters he gave jobs, and not
paying taxes on the money. He also admitted
to conspiring with a political consultant to split $53,560 embezzled
from the state in a sham transaction. He was indicted
on corruption charges
in 1995. On January 5, 1996, he pleaded
guilty to felony counts of tax
evasion and accepting a kickback;
he pleaded
no contest to a misdemeanor count of trading
in public office. Sentenced
to 17 years in prison,
and fined.
Released on parole (due to illness) in February 1999.
Died of colon
cancer and a stroke, in
Heber Springs, Cleburne
County, Ark., September
9, 2000 (age about 57
years).
Interment somewhere.
| |
| Politicians buried here: | |
|
Hugh French Thomason (1826-1893) —
also known as Hugh F. Thomason —
of Arkansas.
Born in Smith
County, Tenn., February
22, 1826.
Delegate
to Arkansas secession convention, 1861; Delegate
from Arkansas to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62;
candidate for Representative
from Arkansas in the Confederate Congress 1st District, 1861;
member of Arkansas state legislature, 1866, 1886; delegate to
Arkansas state constitutional convention, 1874; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Arkansas, 1874; member of Arkansas
state senate, 1880; state court judge in Arkansas, 1890-93.
Died in Van Buren, Crawford
County, Ark., July 30,
1893 (age 67 years, 158
days).
Interment at Fairview Cemetery.
| |
|
|
||
|
"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a
political graveyard." Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872 |
 |
| The Political Graveyard is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source for American political biography, listing 234,420 politicians, living and dead. | ||
|
The coverage of the site includes (1) the President, Vice President,
members of Congress, elected state and territorial officeholders in
all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories; and
the chief elected official, typically the mayor, of qualifying
municipalities; (2) candidates at election, including primaries, for
any of the above; (3) all federal judges and all state appellate judges;
(4) certain federal officials, including the federal cabinet,
diplomatic chiefs of mission, consuls, U.S. district attorneys,
collectors of customs and internal revenue, and members of major
federal commissions; and (5) state and national political party officials,
including delegates, alternate delegates, and other participants in
national party nominating conventions. |
||
|
The listings are incomplete; development of the database
is a continually ongoing project. |
||
|
Information on this page — and on all other pages of this
site — is believed to be accurate, but is not
guaranteed. Users are advised to check with other sources
before relying on any information here. |
||
|
The official URL for this page is: http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/CF-buried.html. |
||
|
Links to this or any other Political Graveyard page
are welcome, but specific page addresses may sometimes
change as the site develops. |
||
|
If you are searching for a specific named individual, try the
alphabetical index of
politicians. |
||
|
More information: FAQ;
privacy policy;
cemetery links. |
||
|
If you find any error or omission in The Political Graveyard,
or if you have information to share, please see the
biographical checklist and
submission guidelines. |
||
| Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. — The mailing address is The Political Graveyard, P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — This site is hosted by HDL. — The Political Graveyard opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on May 12, 2012. | ||
| Copyright notice: Facts are not subject to copyright; see Feist v. Rural Telephone. Original material, programming, selection and arrangement are © 1996-2011 Lawrence Kestenbaum. This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a Creative Commons License. | ||
 |
 |
 |
 |
![[Amazon.com]](http://politicalgraveyard.com/images/a150X70b.gif) |
