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

Carl Edward Bailey, a two-term governor of Arkansas in the 1930s, struggled to modernize state government and ...

Elisha Baxter, a Unionist leader during the Civil War and a jurist, is best remembered as Arkansas’s last Re...

A veteran of state government, Mickey Dale (Mike) Beebe was inaugurated as Arkansas’s forty-fifth governor o...

James Henderson Berry served as a Civil War officer, lawyer, Arkansas legislator, speaker of the Arkansas Hous...

Charles Hillman Brough was an educator, a promoter, and the state’s twenty-fifth governor. Rated by some his...

Dale Leon Bumpers was one of the state’s most successful politicians in the last half of the twentieth centu...

Francis Adams Cherry was a chancery judge, Arkansas’s thirty-fifth governor, and chairman of the federal Sub...

Thomas James Churchill, the thirteenth governor of Arkansas, led advances in health and education while in off...

James Paul Clarke, eighteenth governor of Arkansas and a United States senator, became an advocate of the silv...

Powell Clayton, a Union general who settled in Arkansas following the Civil War, played a prominent role as a ...

Elias Nelson Conway—born into an extended kinship group known as “The Family,” which came to dominate th...

James Sevier Conway was the first governor for the state of Arkansas, elected in 1836 through strong family ti...

Jeff Davis was a populist governor who railed against corporations and often resorted to race baiting in his c...

George Washington Donaghey, the twenty-second governor of Arkansas, built a legacy in the state that endures t...

Thomas Stevenson Drew was a peddler, schoolteacher, farmer, railroad speculator, and governor of Arkansas. He ...

James Philip Eagle served as governor during one of the most turbulent times in Arkansas’s history. Elected ...

Orval Eugene Faubus served six consecutive terms as governor of Arkansas, holding the office longer than any o...

William Meade Fishback was a prominent Unionist during the Civil War who became the seventeenth governor of Ar...

Harris Flanagin, the seventh governor of Arkansas, had his four-year term cut short when he surrendered Arkans...

William Savin Fulton was appointed Arkansas’s last territorial governor by President Andrew Jackson in 1835 ...

Augustus Hill Garland was the eleventh governor of Arkansas, a member of the Confederate Congress, a U.S. sena...

Between being made a territory of the United States in 1819 and becoming a state in 1836, Arkansas was oversee...

Ozro Amander Hadley served as acting governor of Arkansas from 1871, when Powell Clayton resigned, until 1873....

George Washington Hays was a key figure in deciding issues on prohibition and women’s rights. He served as g...

Simon Pollard Hughes typifies the ex-Confederate, personally prosperous, conservative post-Reconstruction Demo...

George Izard, scholar, soldier, and army major general, served as Arkansas’s second territorial governor...

Daniel Webster Jones was the last Civil War veteran to serve as governor of Arkansas. He was a member of the o...