calsfoundation@cals.org
May 30, 1923
Thomas Stevenson Drew, a Lawrence County judge who was instrumental in the founding of Pocahontas (Randolph County) and who served as Arkansas’s third governor, was reinterred in Pocahontas over forty years after his death in Lipan, Texas. Drew was the first person to be elected governor by a plurality instead of a majority and the only governor to resign his office because of personal financial difficulties.