Pulaski Leaders

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 ...
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...
Millie Muriel Ward Brooks (1932–2005)
Millie Muriel Ward Brooks was a long-time alderman in Wrightsville (Pulaski County). The new Wrightsville bran...
Irma Lee Hunter Brown (1939–)
Irma Hunter Brown of Little Rock (Pulaski County) served in the Arkansas House of Representatives from 19...
Charles E. Bussey Jr. (1918–1996)
Charles E. Bussey Jr. was the first African American elected to serve on the Little Rock (Pulaski County) City...
Warren Durkee Carpenter (1919–2000)
Warren Carpenter was an Arkansas educator, political activist, and conspiracy theorist who, in the 1980s and 1...
Robert Francis Catterson (1835–1914)
Robert Francis Catterson was an officer in the Union army during the Civil War. Ending the war as a brigadier ...
Erle Rutherford Chambers (1875–1941)
Erle Rutherford Chambers was a pioneering woman in Arkansas in the early part of the twentieth century. In add...
Sterling Robertson Cockrill Jr. (1925–2022)
Sterling R. Cockrill Jr. was in the insurance business with his father, Sterling R. Cockrill, in 1956 when he ...
James A. Comer (1866–1935)
James Comer was a prominent Little Rock (Pulaski County) lawyer and Republican Party leader in the early 1900s...
Edwin Eagle Dunaway (1915–1994)
Edwin Eagle Dunaway was a lawyer and politician who was a rare unabashed champion of racial equality in the da...
Joyce Elliott (1951–)
Longtime Arkansas political figure Joyce Elliott represented the area around Little Rock (Pulaski County) in b...
James Peter Faucette (1867–1956)
James Peter Faucette was a politician, businessman, and the third mayor of Argenta, now North Little Rock (Pul...
Will Faucette (1865–1914)
aka: William Chesley Faucette
William Chesley Faucette was a politician, businessman, and the fir...
William Hume "Rush" Feild Sr. (1796–1861)
William Hume “Rush” Feild Sr. was elected in the state’s first popular-vote election for circuit court. ...
Joe Thomas Ford (1937–)
Joe Thomas Ford, son of Arkansas’s longtime top school official Arch Ford, embarked on a political career as...
Isaac Taylor Gillam (1839?–1904)
Isaac Taylor Gillam was an important African American leader in post–Civil War Little Rock (Pulaski County)....
Good Government Committee (Little Rock)
Little Rock (Pulaski County) business leaders formed the Good Government Committee in October 1956, which conv...
Alexis Karl Hartman (1838–1899)
Alexis Karl Hartman was the first elected Reconstruction mayor of Little Rock (Pulaski County), winning the of...
Dianne Elizabeth Ferguson Hudson (1939–)
Dianne Hudson served as a state representative from Sherwood (Pulaski County) in the 81st Arkansas General Ass...
Patricia Roberts (Patti) Julian (1955–)
Patti Julian was a representative from North Little Rock (Pulaski County) in the Eighty-ninth Arkansas ...
William Marmaduke Kavanaugh (1866–1915)
William Marmaduke Kavanaugh was briefly a U.S. senator for Arkansas after the death of incumbent Jeff Davis. I...
Jim Keet (1949–)
Jim Keet is a former member of the Arkansas General Assembly who served in both the House and the Senate. He a...
Robert C. Knox (1892–1947)
Robert C. Knox, scion of a southern Arkansas family of politicians and lawyers, built a thirty-year legal and ...
Frederick Kramer (1829–1896)
Frederick Kramer emigrated in 1848 from Prussia to the United States, settling in the 1850s in Little Rock (Pu...
William Fewell "Casey" Laman (1913–2012)
William Fewell “Casey” Laman exerted a vigorous—albeit dictatorial—style of leadership during his sixt...
Calvin Reville (Cal) Ledbetter Jr. (1929–2013)
Calvin Reville (Cal) Ledbetter Jr. was a professor, author, politician, and philanthropist. He taught politica...
Woodrow Wilson Mann (1916–2002)
Woodrow Wilson Mann Sr. served as the fifty-third mayor of Little Rock (Pulaski County) during a tumultuous tw...
Lillian Dees McDermott (1877–1965)
Lillian M. Dees McDermott was a social worker and community leader in Little Rock (Pulaski County). She made g...
Edgar Lafayette McHaney (1876–1948)
Edgar McHaney contributed to legal proceedings that changed constitutional law in the United States. With co-c...
Florence Emily McGraw McRaven (1877–1975)
Florence McRaven of Little Rock (Pulaski County) was a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from 19...