Legislative Branch -- Senators

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William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. (1934–)
William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. represented the state of Arkansas in the U.S. House of Representatives fro...
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John Boozman (1950–)
Businessman and rancher John Boozman became a leading Republican officeholder in the early part of the twenty-...
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Solon Borland (1811–1864)
Solon Borland was a physician, editor, United States senator, diplomat, and military officer. He was the first...
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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...
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Thaddeus Horatius Caraway (1871–1931)
Thaddeus Horatius Caraway was an Arkansas prosecuting attorney who was elected to the U.S. House of Representa...
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James Paul Clarke (1854–1916)
James Paul Clarke, eighteenth governor of Arkansas and a United States senator, became an advocate of the silv...
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Powell Clayton (1833–1914)
Powell Clayton, a Union general who settled in Arkansas following the Civil War, played a prominent role as a ...
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Henry Wharton Conway (1793–1827)
Henry Wharton Conway was the delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives from the Territory of Arkansas. He ...
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Thomas Bryant (Tom) Cotton (1977–)
Tom Cotton became the junior senator from Arkansas in 2015. A Republican elected with only Libertarian Party o...
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Hugh Anderson Dinsmore (1850–1930)
Hugh Anderson Dinsmore was the first Arkansan from Benton County appointed as a U.S. foreign minister. Dinsmor...
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Stephen Wallace Dorsey (1842–1916)
Stephen Wallace Dorsey was a soldier, a U.S. senator from Arkansas, and an entrepreneur involved with railroad...
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Bill Fulbright (1905–1995)
aka: James William Fulbright
aka: J. William Fulbright
James William (Bill) Fulbright remains one of Arkansas’s most...
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Kaneaster Hodges Jr. (1938–2022)
Kaneaster Hodges Jr. served as a Democratic interim U.S. senator representing Arkansas from December 10, 1977,...
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William Fosgate Kirby (1867–1934)
William Fosgate Kirby was an associate justice on the Arkansas Supreme Court and also served as state attorney...
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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...
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Alexander McDonald (1832–1903)
As one of Arkansas’s Republican senators during Reconstruction, Alexander McDonald played a role in the retu...
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John Elvis Miller (1888–1981)
John Elvis Miller, the son of a Confederate veteran, had a distinguished career in the law, sandwiched around ...
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Charles Burton Mitchel (1815–1864)
Charles Burton Mitchel briefly served as a U.S. senator from the state of Arkansas before resigning his office...
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David Hampton Pryor (1934–2024)
David Hampton Pryor, arguably the most popular Arkansas politician of the modern era, held four different poli...
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Mark Lunsford Pryor (1963–)
Mark Lunsford Pryor is an Arkansas lawyer and politician. Following in the footsteps of his father, David Pryo...
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Benjamin Franklin Rice (1828–1905)
Benjamin Franklin Rice was a Reconstruction-era U.S. senator from Arkansas, as well as an attorney, politician...
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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...
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William King Sebastian (1812–1865)
William Sebastian represented Arkansas in the U.S. Senate from 1848 until 1861. Also a farmer, lawyer, and jud...
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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...
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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....
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United States Senators from Arkansas
The United States Congress, as created under the Constitution of the United States in 1787, consists of an upp...
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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...