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January 10, 1933
Junius Marion Futrell became Arkansas’s thirtieth governor. His response to being in charge of a state on the verge of financial ruin was to reduce the size of state government and put the state government on a “pay-as-you-go basis” until state debts was paid. This latter policy later became codified in the nineteenth and twentieth amendments to the Arkansas Constitution.