January 16, 1936

Harvey Parnell, the twenty-ninth governor of Arkansas, died at St. Vincent’s Infirmary in Little Rock (Pulaski County) after suffering two heart attacks. Parnell came into office with a reform agenda, but the advent of the Great Depression meant that much of the government spending went toward relief, thus scuttling his attempts to reorganize state government.

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