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William Henry Abington (1870–1951)
William Henry (W. H.) Abington, a physician and a Democratic politician, served as a state senator and a state...
Act 38 of 1971
Act 38 of 1971, which reorganized sixty state government agencies into thirteen cabinet-level departments, was...
Samuel Adams (1805–1850)
Samuel Adams served as acting governor of Arkansas from April 29, 1844, to November 9, 1844. As president of t...
Homer Martin Adkins (1890–1964)
Governor Homer Martin Adkins stands as a symbol of many Arkansans’ ambivalence about the growing power of th...
African American Legislators (Nineteenth Century)
In Arkansas, between 1868 and 1893, at least eighty-seven African American men were elected to and served in t...
Amendment 59
aka: Taxation Amendment
Amendment 59 was an amendment to the Arkansas Constitution, ratifie...
Arkansas Centennial Commemorative Half Dollars
The United States Mint issued two silver half dollars commemorating the 1936 centennial of Arkansas’s stateh...
Arkansas Constitutions
aka: Constitutions of Arkansas
State constitutions serve as the foundation for statutory laws, rul...
Arkansas Council of Defense
The Arkansas Council of Defense was the governor-appointed group tasked with coordinating propaganda and promo...
Arkansas Creed
The germ of the Arkansas Creed was contained in House Concurrent Resolution 2 of 1969, introduced by state rep...
Arkansas Department of Agriculture (ADA)
The Arkansas Department of Agriculture (ADA) is an amalgam of various agriculture-related state agencies estab...
Arkansas Department of Commerce
As part of the large-scale reorganization of state government under Act 910 of 2019, the Arkansas Legislature ...
Arkansas Department of Corrections
The umbrella entity of the Arkansas Department of Corrections, created by Act 910 of 2019, is composed of over...
Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment (ADEE)
Established in 2019 as part of the Transformation and Efficiencies Act of 2019 (Act 910), the new umbrella age...
Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration (ADFA)
The Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration (ADFA) oversees the collection of state taxes, the purch...
Arkansas Department of Health (ADH)
The Arkansas Department of Health (ADH) exercises supervision over all matters pertaining to the health of Ark...
Arkansas Department of Human Services (ADHS)
The Arkansas Department of Human Services (ADHS) is the largest of the state’s agencies. It performs and ove...
Arkansas Department of Labor and Licensing (ADLL)
The Arkansas Department of Labor (ADL), which became the Arkansas Division of Labor in 2019, arose as part of ...
Arkansas Department of Public Safety (ADPS)
The Arkansas Division of Emergency Management (ADEM), which became part of the Arkansas Department of Public S...
Arkansas Department of the Inspector General
The Transformation and Efficiencies Act of 2019 (Act 910) elevated the existing office of Medicaid Inspector G...
Arkansas Department of Transformation and Shared Services
The Transformation and Efficiencies Act of 2019 (Act 910) merged the Office of Transformation with the former ...
Arkansas Department of Transportation
The Arkansas Department of Transportation oversees the planning, maintenance, and policing of state roads and ...
Arkansas Department of Veterans Affairs (ADVA)
The Arkansas Department of Veterans Affairs (ADVA) dates back to the post–World War I years and the need to ...
Arkansas Division of Aeronautics (ADA)
The Arkansas Division of Aeronautics (ADA) is responsible for regulating aviation in the state of Arkansas as ...
Arkansas Division of Career and Technical Education (ADCTE)
The Division of Career and Technical Education oversees vocational and technical education in the state. It wa...
Arkansas Division of Community Correction (ADCC)
The Arkansas Division of Community Correction (ADCC) oversees the state’s non-traditional correction program...
Arkansas Division of Higher Education
The Arkansas Division of Higher Education is responsible for the regulation of the state’s public two-year a...
Arkansas Division of Information Systems (DIS)
The former Arkansas Department of Information Systems (ADIS) provided information technology solutions for the...
Arkansas Division of Rural Services
What became the Arkansas Division of Rural Services under Act 910 of 2019 was created “to serve as a single ...
Arkansas Division of Workforce Services (ADWS)
The Arkansas Division of Workforce Services (ADWS) is the state agency responsible for providing job-related s...
Arkansas Economic Development Commission
The Arkansas Industrial Development Commission (AIDC) was created in 1955 by Act 404 of the Arkansas General A...
Arkansas Ethics Commission
The Arkansas Ethics Commission is the appointed body that oversees the implementation and application of Arkan...