In less than two weeks in 1913, Joe T. Robinson of Lonoke County held three different political offices. As a member of Congress, Robinson resigned his seat to seek the office of governor, which he won. Just twelve days after being inaugurated, he was chosen to fill the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the sudden death of Senator Jeff Davis. Robinson was the last senator chosen by a state legislature before the advent of direct election of senators under the Seventeenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.