November 11, 1920

Charles M. Norwood, the 1888 Union Labor Party gubernatorial candidate, died at the age of eighty. Moving to Arkansas around 1847, Norwood attended private schools in Columbia County before enlisting in the Confederate army as a private in 1861. After the war, he enrolled in a medical college in New Orleans, Louisiana, before returning to Arkansas to practice medicine. Norwood held positions as a county assessor and state legislator before accepting the gubernatorial nomination for the Union Labor Party in 1888. Though he lost the election, likely due to extensive fraud on the part of the Democratic Party, Norwood came closer to victory than any other challenger to the gubernatorial candidate of the Democratic Party from 1874 to 1964.