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April 26, 2007
Greene County native Junius M. Futrell was elected governor during the Great Depression in 1932. Campaigning as a fiscal conservative, he opposed almost all proposals to raise money for the state. However, he did support repealing state prohibition and was in favor of the selling of alcohol from proposed distilleries operated at the state prison facilities. This unusual failed proposal was popularly known as the Convict Corn Plan.