January 28, 1970

Arkansas-born politician and lawyer William Judson Holloway, who led the state of Oklahoma as governor during the early years of the Great Depression, died at the age of eighty-two. Holloway was born and educated in Arkadelphia (Clark County), graduating from what is now Ouachita Baptist University in 1910. He began his political career in Hugo, Oklahoma, where he served as county attorney, state senator, and lieutenant governor before succeeding the impeached Governor Henry Johnson in 1929. Serving only one year as governor, Holloway relocated to Oklahoma City, where he operated a successful private law practice.