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Arkansas: Governors


Governors of Arkansas, 1836-2008 (May be incomplete!)
James Sevier Conway 1836-40 Archibald Yell 1840-44 Samuel Adams 1844 Thomas S. Drew 1844-49 Richard C. Byrd 1849 John Selden Roane 1849-52 Elias Nelson Conway 1852-60 Henry Massey Rector 1860-62 Harris Flanagin 1862-64 Isaac Murphy 1864-68 Powell Clayton 1868-71 Ozra A. Hadley 1871-73 Elisha Baxter 1873-74 Augustus H. Garland 1874-77 William Read Miller 1877-81 Thomas J. Churchill 1881-83 James H. Berry 1883-85 Simon P. Hughes 1885-89 James P. Eagle 1889-93 William Meade Fishback 1893-95 James P. Clarke 1895-97 Daniel W. Jones 1897-1901 Jeff Davis 1901-07 John S. Little 1907 John I. Moore 1907 Xenophon Overton Pindall 1907-09 George W. Donaghey 1909-13 Joseph T. Robinson 1913 William K. Oldham 1913 J. Marion Futrell 1913 George Washington Hays 1913-17 Charles H. Brough 1917-21 Thomas C. McRae 1921-25 Tom J. Terral 1925-27 John Ellis Martineau 1927-28 Harvey Parnell 1928-33 J. Marion Futrell 1933-37 Carl E. Bailey 1937-41 Homer M. Adkins 1941-45 Benjamin Travis Laney 1945-49 Sid McMath 1949-53 Francis Adams Cherry 1953-55 Orval Faubus 1955-67 Winthrop Rockefeller 1967-71 Dale Bumpers 1971-75 Bob Cowley Riley 1975 David H. Pryor 1975-79 Joe Purcell 1979 Bill Clinton 1979-81 Frank White 1981-83 Bill Clinton 1983-92 Jim Guy Tucker, Jr. 1992-96 Mike Huckabee 1996-2007 Mike Beebe 2007-

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

  • 1882: Rufus King Garland, defeated.
  • 1894: H. L. Remmel (Rep), defeated.
  • 1896: H. L. Remmel (Rep), defeated.
  • 1900: H. L. Remmel (Rep), defeated.
  • 1908: Stephen Brundidge, Jr., defeated.
  • 1913 Mar 8: Joseph T. Robinson, resigned.
  • 1948: William T. Mills (Rep), defeated.
  • 1952: Boyd Tackett, defeated for nomination; Benjamin Travis Laney, defeated; Sid McMath (Dem), defeated.
  • 1954: Guy H. Jones, Sr. (Dem), defeated in primary.
  • 1954: Pratt C. Remmel (Rep), defeated.
  • 1962: Dale Alford (Dem), defeated in primary.
  • 1966: Dale Alford (Dem), defeated in primary.
  • 1968: Frank L. Whitbeck (Dem), defeated.
  • 1970: Joe Purcell (Dem), defeated in primary.
  • 1974: Bob Cowley Riley (Dem), defeated in primary.
  • 1978: Monroe Schwarzlose (Dem), defeated in primary.
  • 1980: Monroe Schwarzlose (Dem), defeated in primary.
  • 1980: Marshall Chrisman (Rep), defeated in primary.
  • 1982: Frank White (Rep), defeated.
  • 1986: Maurice L. Britt, defeated; Frank White (Rep), defeated.
  • 1990: Sheffield Nelson (Rep), defeated; Thomas Chipman McRae IV (Dem), defeated.
  • 1994: Sheffield Nelson (Rep), defeated.
  • 1998 May 19: Mike Huckabee (Rep), nominated; Gene McVay (Rep), defeated in primary.
  • 1998 Nov 3: Mike Huckabee (Rep), elected; Bill Bristow (Dem), defeated; Keith Carle (Reform), defeated.

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