calsfoundation@cals.org
January 7, 2009
Of the seventy-five counties of the state of Arkansas, ten have been named in honor of presidents of the United States. On April 17, 1873, the state legislature named the newest county then to be created, Dorsey County, after Republican congressman Stephen Dorsey but renamed it Cleveland County on March 5, 1885, in honor of the nations twenty-second and twenty-fourth chief executive, Grover Cleveland.