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

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

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

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

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...

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

W. Emmett Atkinson was a farmer and teacher working in Arkansas in the later part of the nineteenth and first ...

George W. Baines was a prominent nineteenth-century Southern Baptist minister, teacher, Arkansas politician, a...

Richard L. (Dick) Barclay was a major figure in state and Republican politics in the last part of the twentiet...

Antoine Barraque established the settlement called New Gascony, one of the earliest settlements in what is now...

Clarence Elmo Bell was a prominent public school educator as well as a longtime, influential member of the Ark...

Pickens W. Black Sr. was one of the most remarkable African-American agriculturalists in northeast Arkansas in...

Peggy Long Hartness was a state representative from Monticello (Drew County), serving Drew County and p...

Calvin Comins Bliss was in search of challenges when he and his new wife Caroline came to Arkansas from New En...

Neill Bohlinger was an Arkansas attorney, politician, and judge who served multiple terms in the Arkansas Gene...

Pat Bond of Jacksonville (Pulaski County) served in the Eighty-first, Eighty-second, and Eighty-third Ark...

Prominent businessman and entrepreneur Ulysses Simpson (U. S.) Bond, like his father and brothers, was a membe...

Jerry Bookout was a long-time member of the Arkansas General Assembly, where he represented northeastern Arkan...

Shirley Borhauer was a representative from Bella Vista (Benton County) in the Eighty-third, Eighty-fourth,...

Ulysses S. Bratton was a prominent Arkansas attorney in the first part of the twentieth century. His advocacy ...

Shane Broadway was a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1997 to 2002, serving as speaker of ...

Millie Muriel Ward Brooks was a long-time alderman in Wrightsville (Pulaski County). The new Wrightsville bran...

William H. Brooks was a Confederate colonel who led both infantry and cavalry troops in some of the fiercest b...

Irma Hunter Brown of Little Rock (Pulaski County) served in the Arkansas House of Representatives from 19...

Lyle Brown was a lawyer and historian who capped a career in politics by serving for twenty-one years as a cir...

Christine Brownlee was mayor of Gilmore (Crittenden County) in 1987–1990 and again in 1997–2002, as...

Leon L. “Doc” Bryan was an influential figure in the Arkansas House of Representatives in the final third ...

Bradley Bunch was a longtime Arkansas legislator, Carroll County judge, and the first historian of Carroll Cou...

LeAnne Pittman Burch of Monticello (Drew County) served in the Arkansas House of Representatives representing ...

Charles E. Bussey Jr. was the first African American elected to serve on the Little Rock (Pulaski County) City...

Benjamin Franklin Butler served as mayor of Osceola (Mississippi County) for nearly three decades and was a we...