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Benjamin Frank Adair (1852–1902)
Benjamin Frank Adair, born a slave in Phillips County, established a legal practice in central Arkansas in the...
Sarah Edith Sonneman Agee (1946–)
Sarah Agee of Prairie Grove (Washington County) served as a state representative in the Eighty-second, E...
Boyce Alford (1923–2002)
Boyce Alford was a well-respected optometrist who also had a long career in public service. Active at both the...
Dorathy N. McDonald Allen (1910–1990)
Dorathy N. McDonald Allen was the first woman to serve in the Arkansas Senate, serving from 1964 to 1974 in th...
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Freda Hogan Ameringer (1892–1988)
Freda Hogan Ameringer was a journalist, Socialist Party official, and labor activist in Sebastian County; she...
Evelyn Ammons (1937–2017)
Evelyn Ammons was county and circuit clerk for Scott County from 1979 to 1994 and served in the 80th, 81st, an...
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James Buckingham (Jim) Argue Jr. (1951–2018)
James Buckingham (Jim) Argue Jr. became a political and religious leader in Arkansas in the later part of the ...
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Arkansas Municipal League
The Arkansas Municipal League, established in 1934, has 500 members, encompassing all of the state’s inc...
Alfred W. Arrington (1810–1867)
The colorful and often controversial Alfred W. Arrington was an attorney, minister, and Arkansas state legisla...
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Willie Emmett Atkinson (1874–1962)
W. Emmett Atkinson was a farmer and teacher working in Arkansas in the later part of the nineteenth and first ...
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George Washington Baines (1809–1882)
George W. Baines was a prominent nineteenth-century Southern Baptist minister, teacher, Arkansas politician, a...
Richard L. (Dick) Barclay (1937–2019)
Richard L. (Dick) Barclay was a major figure in state and Republican politics in the last part of the twentiet...
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Antoine Barraque (1773–1858)
Antoine Barraque established the settlement called New Gascony, one of the earliest settlements in what is now...
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Clarence Elmo Bell (1912–1997)
Clarence Elmo Bell was a prominent public school educator as well as a longtime, influential member of the Ark...
Pickens W. Black Sr. (1861?–1955)
Pickens W. Black Sr. was one of the most remarkable African-American agriculturalists in northeast Arkansas in...
Peggy O’Neil Long Hartness Blair (1939–)
Peggy Long Hartness was a state representative from Monticello (Drew County), serving Drew County and p...
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Calvin Comins Bliss (1823–1891)
Calvin Comins Bliss was in search of challenges when he and his new wife Caroline came to Arkansas from New En...
Neill Bohlinger (1884–1969)
Neill Bohlinger was an Arkansas attorney, politician, and judge who served multiple terms in the Arkansas Gene...
Patricia Lee Parker (Pat) Bond (1938–)
Pat Bond of Jacksonville (Pulaski County) served in the Eighty-first, Eighty-second, and Eighty-third Ark...
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Ulysses Simpson (U. S.) Bond (1897–1967)
Prominent businessman and entrepreneur Ulysses Simpson (U. S.) Bond, like his father and brothers, was a membe...
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Jerry Bookout (1933–2006)
Jerry Bookout was a long-time member of the Arkansas General Assembly, where he represented northeastern Arkan...
Shirley Ursala Czosek Borhauer (1926–2013)
Shirley Borhauer was a representative from Bella Vista (Benton County) in the Eighty-third, Eighty-fourth,...
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Ulysses Simpson Bratton (1868–1947)
Ulysses S. Bratton was a prominent Arkansas attorney in the first part of the twentieth century. His advocacy ...
Henry M. Britt (1919–1995)
Henry M. Britt was the first Republican to be elected as a trial judge in Arkansas since Reconstruction. He se...
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Shane Broadway (1972–)
Shane Broadway was a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1997 to 2002, serving as speaker of ...
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Millie Muriel Ward Brooks (1932–2005)
Millie Muriel Ward Brooks was a long-time alderman in Wrightsville (Pulaski County). The new Wrightsville bran...
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William H. Brooks (1838–1869)
William H. Brooks was a Confederate colonel who led both infantry and cavalry troops in some of the fiercest b...
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Irma Lee Hunter Brown (1939–)
Irma Hunter Brown of Little Rock (Pulaski County) served in the Arkansas House of Representatives from 19...
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Lyle Brown (1908–1984)
Lyle Brown was a lawyer and historian who capped a career in politics by serving for twenty-one years as a cir...
Christene Jackson Brownlee (1955–)
Christene Brownlee was mayor of Gilmore (Crittenden County) in 1987–1990 and again in 1997–2002, as...
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Leon L. “Doc” Bryan (1920–1995)
Leon L. “Doc” Bryan was an influential figure in the Arkansas House of Representatives in the final third ...
Bradley Bunch (1818–1894)
Bradley Bunch was a longtime Arkansas legislator, Carroll County judge, and the first historian of Carroll Cou...