January 11, 1949

Sidney Sanders McMath was inaugurated Arkansas’s thirty-fourth governor. McMath promoted a relatively progressive program during his four years as governor, emphasizing economic development, health care, construction and improvement of highways, and improvement of the state’s educational system, along with tackling labor and race issues.

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