September 27, 2009

U.S. senator Joseph T. Robinson (left) of Lonoke (Lonoke County) is shown here attending the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on June 24, 1936. The convention delegates, which included Robinson and fellow Arkansas senator Hattie Caraway (on Robinson’s left), nominated Franklin D. Roosevelt for a second term as president.

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