Legislative Branch -- Senators

William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. (1934–)
William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. represented the state of Arkansas in the U.S. House of Representatives fro...
John Boozman (1950–)
Businessman and rancher John Boozman became a leading Republican officeholder in the early part of the twenty-...
Solon Borland (1811–1864)
Solon Borland was a physician, editor, United States senator, diplomat, and military officer. He was the first...
Hattie Caraway (1878–1950)
Hattie Ophelia Wyatt Caraway was the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate, the first woman to preside over t...
Thaddeus Horatius Caraway (1871–1931)
Thaddeus Horatius Caraway was an Arkansas prosecuting attorney who was elected to the U.S. House of Representa...
James Paul Clarke (1854–1916)
James Paul Clarke, eighteenth governor of Arkansas and a United States senator, became an advocate of the silv...
Powell Clayton (1833–1914)
Powell Clayton, a Union general who settled in Arkansas following the Civil War, played a prominent role as a ...
Henry Wharton Conway (1793–1827)
Henry Wharton Conway was the delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives from the Territory of Arkansas. He ...
Thomas Bryant (Tom) Cotton (1977–)
Tom Cotton became the junior senator from Arkansas in 2015. A Republican elected with only Libertarian Party o...
Hugh Anderson Dinsmore (1850–1930)
Hugh Anderson Dinsmore was the first Arkansan from Benton County appointed as a U.S. foreign minister. Dinsmor...
Stephen Wallace Dorsey (1842–1916)
Stephen Wallace Dorsey was a soldier, a U.S. senator from Arkansas, and an entrepreneur involved with railroad...
Bill Fulbright (1905–1995)
aka: James William Fulbright
aka: J. William Fulbright
James William (Bill) Fulbright remains one of Arkansas’s most...
Kaneaster Hodges Jr. (1938–2022)
Kaneaster Hodges Jr. served as a Democratic interim U.S. senator representing Arkansas from December 10, 1977,...
William Fosgate Kirby (1867–1934)
William Fosgate Kirby was an associate justice on the Arkansas Supreme Court and also served as state attorney...
John Little McClellan (1896–1977)
John Little McClellan served longer in the U.S. Senate than any other Arkansan (1942–1977) and was one of it...
Alexander McDonald (1832–1903)
As one of Arkansas’s Republican senators during Reconstruction, Alexander McDonald played a role in the retu...
John Elvis Miller (1888–1981)
John Elvis Miller, the son of a Confederate veteran, had a distinguished career in the law, sandwiched around ...
Charles Burton Mitchel (1815–1864)
Charles Burton Mitchel briefly served as a U.S. senator from the state of Arkansas before resigning his office...
David Hampton Pryor (1934–2024)
David Hampton Pryor, arguably the most popular Arkansas politician of the modern era, held four different poli...
Mark Lunsford Pryor (1963–)
Mark Lunsford Pryor is an Arkansas lawyer and politician. Following in the footsteps of his father, David Pryo...
Benjamin Franklin Rice (1828–1905)
Benjamin Franklin Rice was a Reconstruction-era U.S. senator from Arkansas, as well as an attorney, politician...
Joseph Taylor Robinson (1872–1937)
Joseph Taylor Robinson was governor only a short time before taking office as a U.S. senator. He became Senate...
William King Sebastian (1812–1865)
William Sebastian represented Arkansas in the U.S. Senate from 1848 until 1861. Also a farmer, lawyer, and jud...
Ambrose Hundley Sevier (1801–1848)
Ambrose Hundley Sevier was a territorial delegate and one of the first U.S. senators from the state of Arkansa...
George Lloyd Spencer (1893–1981)
George Lloyd Spencer, a Democrat, served as U.S. senator of Arkansas from April 1, 1941, to January 3, 1943, f...
Tommy Tuberville (1954–)
Tommy Tuberville was a successful college football coach who, in 2020, was elected as a Republican to the U.S....
United States Senators from Arkansas
The United States Congress, as created under the Constitution of the United States in 1787, consists of an upp...
James David Walker (1830–1906)
James David Walker served as a U.S. senator from Arkansas from 1879 to 1885. Before that, he served as a judge...