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October 8, 1894
The thirty-first governor of Arkansas, Carl Bailey, was born in Bernie, Missouri. Bailey served two terms as governor in the 1930s and struggled to modernize state government and to cope with the Great Depression. He led a political faction consisting of state employees, which clashed with a coalition of federal workers over control of patronage. This conflict split the state, as well as the Democratic Party, into opposing political blocs.