The Political Graveyard: Arkansas: Governors

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Arkansas: Governors

Governors of Arkansas, 1836-2012 (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 W. 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 Ben 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 C. 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.

1912 Sep 9: Joseph T. Robinson (Dem), elected; Andrew I. Roland (Rep), defeated; G. E. Mikel (Socialist), defeated.

1913 Mar 8: Joseph T. Robinson, resigned.

1913 Jul 23: George W. Hays (Dem), elected; Harry H. Myers (Rep), defeated; George W. Murphy (Progressive), defeated; J. Emil Webber (Socialist), defeated.

1914 Sep 14: George W. Hays (Dem), elected; Audrey L. Kinney (Rep), defeated; Dan Hogan (Socialist), defeated.

1916 Nov 7: Charles H. Brough (Dem), elected; Wallace Townsend (Rep), defeated; William Davis (Socialist), defeated.

1918 Nov 5: Charles H. Brough (Dem), elected; Clay Faulks (Socialist), defeated.

1920 Aug 10: Thomas C. McRae (Dem), nominated; Smead Powell (Dem), defeated in primary; Tom J. Terral (Dem), defeated in primary; John C. Floyd (Dem), defeated in primary; George R. Haynie (Dem), defeated in primary; Harry E. Walsh (Dem), defeated in primary; John A. Riggs (Dem), defeated in primary; Henry Stroupe (Dem), defeated in primary; Frank M. Wells (Dem), defeated in primary.

1920 Nov 2: Thomas C. McRae (Dem), elected; Wallace Townsend (Rep), defeated; J. H. Blount (Negro Independent), defeated; Sam Butler (Socialist), defeated.

1922 Aug 8: Thomas C. McRae (Dem), nominated; E. P. Toney (Dem), defeated in primary.

1922 Nov 7: Thomas C. McRae (Dem), elected; John W. Gabriel (Rep), defeated.

1924 Nov 4: Tom J. Terral (Dem), elected; John W. Gabriel (Rep), defeated.

1926 Nov 2: John E. Martineau (Dem), elected; M. D. Bowers (Rep), defeated.

1928 Nov 6: Harvey Parnell (Dem), elected; M. D. Bowers (Rep), defeated.

1930 Nov 4: Harvey Parnell (Dem), elected; J. O. Livesay (Rep), defeated.

1932 Nov 8: J. Marion Futrell (Dem), elected; J. O. Livesay (Rep), defeated; Clay Faulks (Socialist), defeated; H. C. Coney (Communist), defeated.

1934 Nov 6: J. Marion Futrell (Dem), elected; G. C. Ledbetter (Rep), defeated; J. Russell Butler (Socialist), defeated.

1936 Nov 3: Carl E. Bailey (Dem), elected; Osro Cobb (Rep), defeated; J. Russell Butler (Socialist), defeated.

1938 Nov 8: Carl E. Bailey (Dem), elected; Charles S. Cole (Ind), defeated; Walter S. McNutt (Rep), defeated.

1940 Aug 13: Homer M. Adkins (Dem), nominated.

1940 Nov 5: Homer M. Adkins (Dem), elected; Harley C. Stump (Rep), defeated; Walter S. McNutt (Ind), defeated.

1942 Jul 28: Homer M. Adkins (Dem), nominated.

1942 Nov 3: Homer M. Adkins (Dem), elected; Walter S. McNutt, defeated.

1944 Nov 7: Ben Laney (Dem), elected; Harley C. Stump (Rep), defeated.

1946 Nov 5: Ben Laney (Dem), elected; William T. Mills (Rep), defeated.

1948: William T. Mills (Rep), defeated in primary.

1948 Nov 2: Sid McMath (Dem), elected; Charles R. Black (Rep), defeated.

1950 Nov 7: Sid McMath (Dem), elected; Jefferson W. Speck (Rep), defeated.

1952: Sid McMath (Dem), defeated in primary; Boyd Tackett (Dem), defeated in primary; Ben Laney (Dem), defeated in primary.

1952 Nov 4: Francis Adams Cherry (Dem), elected; Jefferson W. Speck (Rep), 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 C. 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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