June 3, 2007

Johnson County native Lee Cazort was the youngest man to serve as the Arkansas General Assembly’s speaker of the House (a post he assumed at twenty-nine years of age) and later as the president of the Senate (at age thirty-three). In 1924, the future lieutenant governor made a bid for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination with the strong support of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). His second-place finish in a field of six helped weaken the influence of the Klan in state politics.