Joseph Brooks

Joseph Brooks, whose protest of the results of the 1872 governor’s race led to the famous Brooks-Baxter War; circa 1874.

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From The Daily Graphic, courtesy of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, Central Arkansas Library System

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