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January 21, 2012
New Jersey native Harris Flanagin was elected the seventh governor of Arkansas in 1862. At the time of his election, he held the rank of colonel of the 2nd Arkansas Mounted Rifles serving east of the Mississippi River with the Confederate Army of Tennessee. Sworn in on November 15, 1862, Flanagin served as the state’s chief executive until the end of the war in 1865.