John Phelps

John Smith Phelps after his appointment as military governor of Arkansas by President Abraham Lincoln; July 1862.

Older white man in suit high collar and bow tie posing in a chair with his elbow on a table covered in ornate cloth

Courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Media

Time Period

Civil War through Reconstruction (1861 - 1874)

Category

Government and Politics / Governors / State

Type

Person

Race & Ethnicity

White

Gender

Male

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