National

William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. (1934–)
William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. represented the state of Arkansas in the U.S. House of Representatives fro...
Thomas Dale Alford (1916–2000)
Thomas Dale Alford was a prominent Arkansas ophthalmologist, Episcopalian, radio announcer, civic leader, and ...
Pernella Anderson (1903–1980)
Pernella Mae Center Anderson of El Dorado (Union County) was one of Arkansas’s two African-American intervie...
Beryl Franklin Anthony Jr. (1938–2025)
Beryl Franklin Anthony Jr. was a long-time Arkansas public servant and an alumnus of the University of Arkansa...
Arkansas Writers Project
The Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) served as a cultural anchor for Arkansas during the years of the Great De...
Stephen Fuller Austin (1793–1836)
Stephen Fuller Austin, most widely known as the “Father of Texas,” spent a short period of his life in Ark...
James Woodson Bates (1788–1846)
James Woodson Bates was an early Arkansas settler who was elected as the first Arkansas territorial representa...
Henry Garland Bennett (1886–1951)
Henry Garland Bennett was an Arkansas-born educator who played a transformative role in the development of the...
Marion Berry (1942–2023)
Marion Berry represented Arkansas’s First Congressional District as a Democrat for seven terms. First electe...
Edwin Ruthvin (Ed) Bethune Jr. (1935–)
Edwin Ruthvin (Ed) Bethune Jr., a lawyer and lobbyist in Washington DC, served as a Republican member of the U...
Leslie L. Biffle (1889–1966)
Leslie L. Biffle was a national Democratic Party official from Arkansas. After serving as secretary for Arkans...
Thomas Boles (1837–1905)
Thomas Boles was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He represented the Third District o...
John Boozman (1950–)
Businessman and rancher John Boozman became a leading Republican officeholder in the early part of the twenty-...
Solon Borland (1811–1864)
Solon Borland was a physician, editor, United States senator, diplomat, and military officer. He was the first...
Elias Cornelius Boudinot (1835–1890)
Elias Cornelius Boudinot was a mixed-lineage Cherokee lawyer, newspaper editor, and lobbyist. He was active in...
Jim Bowie (1796–1836)
aka: James Bowie
Jim Bowie, the man who popularized the bowie knife and who served a...
Clifton Rodes Breckinridge (1846–1932)
Clifton Rodes Breckinridge was a late-nineteenth-century Arkansas politician who attained national prominence....
Stephen Brundidge Jr. (1857–1938)
Stephen Brundidge Jr. was a prosecuting attorney, a member of the Democratic State Central Committee, and a si...
Arthur Brann Caldwell (1906–1987)
Arthur Brann Caldwell served in several capacities with the federal government over nearly four decades, inclu...
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...
Thaddeus Horatius Caraway (1871–1931)
Thaddeus Horatius Caraway was an Arkansas prosecuting attorney who was elected to the U.S. House of Representa...
David Williamson Carroll (1816–1905)
David Williamson Carroll, who was one of the eleven men who represented the state in the Confederate Congress,...
June Carter-Perry (1943–)
June Carter-Perry is a former educator, diplomat, and U.S. State Department official. Her lengthy and multi-fa...
Casqui (1491?–?)
Casqui was a Native American chief who ruled over a province in northeastern Arkansas in the 1500s. He was the...
William Henderson Cate (1839–1899)
William Henderson (W. H.) Cate was a lawyer, a judge, and a Democratic politician who served in the state le...
Civil Works Administration (CWA)
The Civil Works Administration (CWA) was one of the first federal relief programs under President Franklin D. ...
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
A brainchild of newly elected President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) began...
Wesley Kanne Clark (1944–)
Wesley Kanne Clark is an Arkansas resident whose distinguished military career propelled him into the internat...
James Paul Clarke (1854–1916)
James Paul Clarke, eighteenth governor of Arkansas and a United States senator, became an advocate of the silv...
Powell Clayton (1833–1914)
Powell Clayton, a Union general who settled in Arkansas following the Civil War, played a prominent role as a ...
Clinton v. Jones
The U.S. Supreme Court case Clinton v. Jones, 520 U.S. 681 (1997) had the immediate impact of allowing a civil...
Bill Clinton (1946–)
aka: William Jefferson Clinton
  William Jefferson Clinton, a native of Hope (Hempstead Count...