Ambrose Sevier

Ambrose Hundley Sevier, speaker of the Arkansas territorial House of Representatives and one of the state’s first two U.S. senators; circa 1836. Sevier County was named for him.

White man with dark hair in suit and white shirt

Courtesy of the Arkansas State Archives

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