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December 18, 1931
Lockesburg (Sevier County) native Effiegene Locke Wingo, the second of only four women from Arkansas to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, reintroduced a bill to create the Ouachita National Park. The proposal was originally the idea of her husband, who had been in the U.S. House of Representatives from Arkansas’s Fourth Congressional District and had died the previous year.