February 5, 2012

Roberta Waugh Fulbright, the mother of U.S. senator J. William Fulbright, was an influential newspaper publisher, columnist, bank president, successful business owner, and civic crusader in Fayetteville (Washington County). Her most active role in the community was as publisher of the Fayetteville Daily Democrat, later the Northwest Arkansas Times, in which she expressed her views and opinions in a column titled “As I See It.” She is shown here with her son, J. William, in 1935.