Stephen Fuller Austin, most widely known as the “Father of Texas,” spent a short period of his life in Ark...

Leslie L. Biffle was a national Democratic Party official from Arkansas. After serving as secretary for Arkans...

William Henry Grey emerged as a leader of African Americans in Arkansas after he settled in Helena (Phillips ...

William Judson Holloway was an Arkansas-born politician and lawyer who moved to Oklahoma, where he became acti...

Sam Houston was the governor of Tennessee, twice president of the Republic of Texas, and later senator and gov...

William Frank McCombs, born in Hamburg (Ashley County), became known nationally and internationally for promot...

Susan Carol Henley McDougal became famous in the 1990s for refusing to testify before Kenneth Starr and the Of...

James Sayle Moose Jr. was an American Foreign Service officer and diplomat. A specialist in the Middle East, h...

Rodney Earl Slater rose from poverty to become an Arkansas assistant attorney general and served in several po...

John Wesley Snyder was the secretary of the Treasury in the administration of President Harry S. Truman. He ho...

John Roy Steelman, the son of lower-middle-class cotton farmers, rose to become one of President Harry S. Trum...

George Edwin Taylor was a native of Arkansas and the first African American standard-bearer of a national poli...

Charles Lee Watkins served as the first parliamentarian of the U.S. Senate. For more than a half century, he s...

John Garrett Whiteside was a congressional secretary who served many of Arkansas’s delegation of U.S. repres...

James Lee Witt served as the director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) under President Bill C...