Chester Ashley was prominent in territorial and antebellum Arkansas. He was involved in the dispute over owner...

Nick Daniel Bacon stands as one of three people connected to Arkansas to have received the Medal of Honor for...

Bruce Bennett was Arkansas’s attorney general from 1957 to 1960 and from 1963 to 1966. As the state’s lead...

Diane Frances Divers Kincaid Blair was a nationally respected educator, writer, speaker, political scientist, ...

Jay Bradford is an Arkansas businessman and government official. A longtime member of the Arkansas General Ass...

Benton Douglas Brandon Jr. was a legislator, businessman, and civic leader who brought a business presence int...

Joseph Brooks was a Methodist minister who came to Arkansas during the Civil War. He played a prominent role i...

Betty Bumpers, wife of former Arkansas governor and U.S. senator Dale Bumpers, was known for her far-reaching ...

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

John Edward Bush, a chairman of the Republican Party in Arkansas, rose from poverty to national prominence whe...

Tom Walter Campbell was a well-known Arkansas attorney and political figure in the first half of the twentieth...

Gressie Umsted Carnes was active in state and national politics as a member of the Democratic Party. She also ...

Osro Cobb was a lawyer who, as state chairman of the Republican Party, helped establish a real two-party polit...

Marion Harland Crank was a member of the Arkansas General Assembly for eighteen years; he lost narrowly to Gov...

Longtime state official Charlie Daniels began public service as a member of his local school board. A career t...

Early Arkansas, especially Little Rock (Pulaski County), benefited from contributions made by Lorenzo Gibson i...

Nancy Pearl Johnson Hall was the first woman to be elected to a constitutional office in Arkansas. A staff mem...

General Edmund Hogan was an imposing figure in territorial Arkansas. A veteran of the War of 1812, Hogan was o...

William Max Howell was a politician who served in the Arkansas legislature longer than anyone in history, accu...

Susan Burrell Hutchinson is the wife of Asa Hutchinson, the forty-sixth governor of Arkansas, and the state’...

Jerry Donal Jewell was the first African American to serve in the Arkansas Senate in the twentieth century. He...

Virginia Lillian Morris Johnson was the first woman to run for the office of governor in Arkansas. Running as ...

Guy Hamilton “Mutt” Jones was a lawyer and politician who became one of the most influential state lawmake...

Julia Hughes Jones was a Pulaski County circuit clerk and state auditor. She was the first woman to be elected...

Mahlon Adrian Martin was the first African-American city manager in Arkansas. He was later the chief fiscal ad...

Henry Morehart was a leader of the third-party agrarian political rebellion in Pulaski County during the late ...

Elias Camp Morris was an African-American minister who, in 1895, became president of the National Baptist Conv...

Colter Hamilton (Ham) Moses served as secretary to governors George W. Donaghey, George W. Hays, and Charles H...