With its state headquarters in Little Rock (Pulaski County), AARP Arkansas is affiliated with the national org...

William Henry (W. H.) Abington, a physician and a Democratic politician, served as a state senator and a state...

Act 38 of 1971, which reorganized sixty state government agencies into thirteen cabinet-level departments, was...

Benjamin Frank Adair, born a slave in Phillips County, established a legal practice in central Arkansas in the...

Samuel Adams served as acting governor of Arkansas from April 29, 1844, to November 9, 1844. As president of t...

Governor Homer Martin Adkins stands as a symbol of many Arkansans’ ambivalence about the growing power of th...

Cornell Law School defines adverse possession as “a doctrine under which a person in possession of land owne...

In Arkansas, between 1868 and 1893, at least eighty-seven African American men were elected to and served in t...

Sarah Agee of Prairie Grove (Washington County) served as a state representative in the Eighty-second, E...

The experimental Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was the cornerstone farm legislation of President Franklin ...

William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. represented the state of Arkansas in the U.S. House of Representatives fro...

Boyce Alford was a well-respected optometrist who also had a long career in public service. Active at both the...

Thomas Dale Alford was a prominent Arkansas ophthalmologist, Episcopalian, radio announcer, civic leader, and ...

Dorathy N. McDonald Allen was the first woman to serve in the Arkansas Senate, serving from 1964 to 1974 in th...

The American Independent Party was a national third party formed in 1967 as a protest to the civil rights poli...

Freda Hogan Ameringer was a journalist, Socialist Party official, and labor activist in Sebastian County; she...

Evelyn Ammons was county and circuit clerk for Scott County from 1979 to 1994 and served in the 80th, 81st, an...

Pernella Mae Center Anderson of El Dorado (Union County) was one of Arkansas’s two African-American intervie...

Beryl Franklin Anthony Jr. is a long-time Arkansas public servant and an alumnus of the University of Arkansas...

Joseph J. Anthony, a soldier, politician, and Arkansas pioneer, fell victim to one of the most extraordinary a...

The only recorded violent death on the floor of the Arkansas General Assembly occurred on December 4, 1837, in...

James Buckingham (Jim) Argue Jr. became a political and religious leader in Arkansas in the later part of the ...

Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families (AACF) is a nonprofit policy advocacy organization that was forme...

The Arkansas Anti-Saloon League was fully established in 1907 in affiliation with the national Anti-Saloon Lea...

The Arkansas Association of the Deaf (AAD) has provided leadership and advocacy on behalf of deaf and hard-of-...

The United States Mint issued two silver half dollars commemorating the 1936 centennial of Arkansas’s stateh...

President Woodrow Wilson and the U.S. Congress established the Council of National Defense on August 29, 1916,...