May 4, 2010

Governor Winthrop Rockefeller (at microphone), the first Republican governor of Arkansas since 1872, is shown here on his 1968 reelection campaign “Victory Special” train. Rockefeller, who was born into a privileged New York family, moved to Arkansas in 1954 and was appointed by Governor Orval Faubus, whom he succeeded, to the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission (which became the Arkansas Department of Economic Development).