PoliticalGraveyard.com
The Political Graveyard: A Database of American History
Arkansas: Governors


Governors of Arkansas, 1836-2011 (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 E. 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.
  • 1956: James D. Johnson (Dem), defeated in primary.
  • 1962: Dale Alford (Dem), defeated in primary.
  • 1966: Dale Alford (Dem), defeated in primary.
  • 1966: James D. Johnson (Dem), defeated.
  • 1968: Virginia Johnson (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.

     

     


    		 
       
    "Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard."
    Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872    		 The Political Graveyard

    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/ofc/gov.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.
    Creative Commons License Follow polgraveyard on Twitter Click to join political-graveyard [Amazon.com]