August 14, 1870

Junius Marion Futrell, thirtieth governor of Arkansas, was born in the Jones Ridge community (Greene County). Futrell had the misfortune to be governor during the Great Depression. Hamstrung by the state’s financial predicament and by his philosophy of limited government, Futrell has not ranked high in the estimation of historians.

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