calsfoundation@cals.org
September 1, 2007
When former U.S. congressman Thomas McRae was elected governor in 1920, one aspect of the Civil War came to an end in Arkansas, as he was the last former Confederate to hold the office of governor. For a brief period near the end of the war, the young McRae served as a courier for the Confederacy. McRae served two terms as governor and is credited by historians as having moderate success in the reorganization of funding in both education and the states highway system.