Lt. Governors

Bob Bailey (1889–1957)
aka: Robert Ballard Bailey
Robert Ballard (Bob) Bailey was a prominent early to mid-twentieth-...
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...
"Footsie" Britt (1919–1995)
aka: Maurice Lee Britt
aka: Morris Britt
Maurice Lee “Footsie” Britt was an Arkansas native who rose to ...
William Lee Cazort (1887–1969)
William Lee Cazort was a familiar figure in Arkansas politics throughout the 1920s and 1930s. He served severa...
Mark Darr (1973–)
Mark Darr served as lieutenant governor of Arkansas from 2011 to 2014. Elected as part of a wave of political ...
Nathan Green Gordon (1916–2008)
Nathan Green Gordon was a naval pilot in World War II, Medal of Honor recipient, and lawyer. He served as lieu...
John Timothy (Tim) Griffin (1968–)
John Timothy (Tim) Griffin has been a major figure in Arkansas Republican politics in the first decades of the...
Bill Halter (1960–)
William Amos (Bill) Halter served as Arkansas’s lieutenant governor. He had previously worked as a congressi...
Christopher Columbus Hamby (1851–1921)
Christopher Columbus Hamby of Prescott (Nevada County) was an attorney and political figure who served as acti...
James Madison Johnson (1833?–1913)
James Madison Johnson migrated to Arkansas shortly after statehood in 1836. He rose to the rank of brevet brig...
Office of Lieutenant Governor
The office of lieutenant governor did not exist in territorial Arkansas or in the Arkansas constitution of 183...
Harvey Parnell (1880–1936)
Harvey Parnell was the first lieutenant governor of the twentieth century and twenty-ninth governor of Arkansa...
Joe Edward Purcell (1923–1987)
Joe Edward Purcell was a lawyer and politician who shocked the political establishment in 1966 by defeating th...
Bob Cowley Riley (1924–1994)
Bob Cowley Riley was a politician and educator who overcame debilitating World War II injuries to serve with d...
Winthrop Paul Rockefeller (1948–2006)
Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, known in his adopted state of Arkansas as Win (or Win Paul to differentiate him fro...
James Levesque “Bex” Shaver (1902–1985)
J. L. “Bex” Shaver was a major figure in Arkansas politics and government from the 1920s to the 1950s. A D...
V. V. Smith (1842–1897)
aka: Volney Voltaire Smith
The last Reconstruction Republican lieutenant governor, known for a...
Jim Guy Tucker Jr. (1943–2025)
James Guy Tucker Jr., the forty-third governor of Arkansas, had a brief gubernatorial career that abruptly end...