Governors
of Arkansas-Deceased Nov.28,2012
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Adams, Samuel |
Mount Holly Cemetery |
Adkins, Homer Martin |
Roselawn Memorial Park |
Bailey, Carl Edward |
Roselawn Memorial Park |
Baxter, Elisha |
Oaklawn Cemetery |
Berry, James Henderson |
Bentonville Cemetery |
Brough, Charles Hillman |
Roselawn Memorial Park |
Byrd, Richard C. 101404728 |
No cemetery |
Cherry, Francis Adams |
Oaklawn Cemetery |
Churchill, Thomas James |
Mount Holly Cemetery |
Clarke, James Paul |
Oakland Cemetery |
Clayton, Powell |
Arlington National Cemete... |
Conway, Elias Nelson |
Mount Holly Cemetery |
Davis, Jeff |
Mount Holly Cemetery |
Donaghey, George Washington |
Roselawn Memorial Park |
Drew, Thomas Stevenson |
Masonic Cemetery |
Eagle, James Philip |
Mount Holly Cemetery |
Faubus, Orval
Eugene |
Combs Cemetery |
Fishback, William Meade |
Oak Cemetery |
Flanagin, Harris T |
Rose Hill Cemetery |
Fletcher, Thomas |
Mount Holly Cemetery |
Fulton, William Savin |
Mount Holly Cemetery |
Futrell, J. M. 90669635 |
Greene County Memorial Ga... |
Futrell, Junius
Marion |
Linwood Cemetery |
Garland, Augustus Hill |
Mount Holly Cemetery |
Hadley, Ozro
Amander 45554906 |
No cemetery |
Hays, George Washington |
Greenwood Cemetery |
Hughes, Simon P. |
Mount Holly Cemetery |
Izard, George |
Mount Holly Cemetery |
Jones, Daniel Webster |
Oakland Cemetery |
Laney, Benjamin Travis |
Memorial Park Cemetery |
Little, John Sebastian |
Greenwood Memorial Cemete... |
Martin, Judge Jess M. |
Oakland Cemetery |
Martineau, John E. |
Roselawn Memorial Park |
McMath, Sidney Sanders
"Sid" |
Pinecrest Memorial Park a... |
McRae, Thomas Chipman |
De Ann Cemetery |
Miller, James |
Harmony Grove Cemetery |
Miller, William Read |
Mount Holly Cemetery |
Moore, John Issac "Ike" 101402551 |
No cemetery |
Murphy, Isaac |
Huntsville Cemetery |
Oldham, William Kavanaugh |
Oakland Cemetery |
Parnell,
Harvey |
Roselawn Memorial Park |
Phelps, John Smith |
Hazelwood Cemetery |
Pindall, Xenaphon
Overton |
Roselawn Memorial Park |
Pope, John "One-Arm
Pope" |
Cemetery Hill |
Purcell, Joe Edward |
New Rosemont Cemetery |
Rector, Henry Massie |
Mount Holly Cemetery |
Riley, Bob C. |
Rest Haven Memorial Garde... |
Roane, John S. |
Oakland Cemetery |
Robinson, Joseph Taylor |
Roselawn Memorial Park |
Rockefeller, Winthrop |
Winrock Farms |
Terral, Thomas Jefferson |
Roselawn Memorial Park |
White, Frank Durward |
Mount Holly Cemetery |
Yell, Archibald |
Evergreen Cemetery |
List of All Governors for Arkansas per Wikipedia:Nov.28,2012
For the
period before Arkansas Territory was formed, see the list of Governors of Missouri Territory.
Arkansaw
Territory (renamed
Arkansas Territory around 1822[a]) was split
from Missouri
Territory on July 4,
1819. It lost land twice, on November 15, 1824, and May 6, 1828, with the land
being made unorganized
territory both times;
this land eventually became part of Oklahoma.
As secretary of the territory from 1819 to 1829, Robert Crittenden served as acting governor whenever the
appointed governor was not in the state. This meant he was in fact the first
person to perform the office of Governor of Arkansas Territory, since James
Miller did not arrive in the territory until nine months after his appointment.[3]
Picture |
Governor |
Took
office |
Left
office |
Appointed
by |
Notes |
March 3,
1819 |
December
27, 1824 |
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March 4,
1825 |
November
22, 1828 |
James
Monroe |
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March 9,
1829[7] |
March 9,
1835 |
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March 9,
1835 |
June 15,
1836 |
Andrew
Jackson |
Arkansas was admitted to the Union on June 15, 1836. It seceded from the Union on May 6, 1861, and joined the Confederate States of America on May 18, 1861; there was no Union
government in exile, so there was a single line of governors, though as the
state fell to Union forces there was a loyalist government put in place with an
insignificant Confederate government
in exile. Following the end of the American
Civil War, it was part of the Fourth
Military District. Arkansas was readmitted to the Union on June 22,
1868.
The first state
constitution of 1836
established four-year terms for governors,[11] which was lowered to two years in the
1874, and current, constitution.[12]Amendment
63 to the Arkansas Constitution, passed in 1984, increased the terms of both
governor and lieutenant
governor to four years.[13] Governors were originally limited only
to serving no more than eight out of every twelve years,[11] but the 1874 constitution removed any term limit. A
referendum in 1992 limited governors to two terms.[14]
Until 1864, the constitutions provided that, should the office of
governor be rendered vacant, the president
of the senate would
serve as acting governor until such time as a new governor were
elected or the disability removed, or the acting governor's senate term expired.[15][16] This led to some situations where the
governorship changed hands in quick succession, due to senate terms ending or
new senate presidents being elected. For example, after John
Sebastian Littleresigned
in 1907, three senate presidents acted as governor before the next elected
governor took office. Should the president of the senate be similarly
incapacitated, the next in line for the governorship was the speaker of the
state house of representatives.
The 1864 constitution created the office of lieutenant governor[17] who would also act as president of the
senate,[18] and who would serve as acting governor
in case of vacancy.[19] The 1868 constitution maintained the
position,[20] but the 1874 constitution removed it
and returned to the original line of succession.[21]Amendment
6 to the state constitution, passed in 1914 but not recognized until 1925,[22] recreated the office of lieutenant
governor, who becomes governor in case of vacancy of the governor's office.[23] The governor and lieutenant governor
are not elected on the same ticket.
Arkansas was a strongly Democratic state
before the Civil War, electing only candidates from the Democratic party. It elected three Republican governors
following Reconstruction, but after the Democratic Party re-established
control, 92 years passed before voters chose another Republican.
Democratic (48)[i] Republican (7)[j]
#[k] |
Governor |
Term
start |
Term end |
Party |
Terms[n] |
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1 |
|
September
13, 1836 |
November
4, 1840 |
None |
1 |
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2 |
November
4, 1840 |
April
29, 1844 |
Democratic |
1⁄2[o] |
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— |
April
29, 1844 |
November
5, 1844 |
Democratic |
1⁄2[p] |
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3 |
November
5, 1844 |
January
10, 1849 |
Democratic |
1 1⁄3[q] |
||||
— |
January
10, 1849 |
April
19, 1849 |
Democratic |
1⁄3[r] |
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4 |
April
19, 1849 |
November
15, 1852 |
Democratic |
1⁄3[s] |
||||
5 |
November
15, 1852 |
November
16, 1860 |
Democratic |
2 |
||||
6 |
November
16, 1860 |
November
4, 1862 |
Democratic |
1[t] |
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7 |
November
4, 1862 |
April
18, 1864 |
Democratic |
|||||
8 |
April
18, 1864 |
July 2,
1868 |
|
1[u] |
||||
9 |
July 2,
1868 |
March
17, 1871 |
Republican |
1⁄2[x] |
||||
— |
March
17, 1871 |
January
6, 1873 |
Republican |
Vacant |
1⁄2[z] |
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10 |
January
6, 1873 |
November
12, 1874 |
Republican |
|||||
11 |
November
12, 1874 |
January
11, 1877 |
Democratic |
None |
2 |
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12 |
January
11, 1877 |
January
11, 1881 |
Democratic |
2 |
||||
13 |
January
11, 1881 |
January
13, 1883 |
Democratic |
1 |
||||
14 |
January
13, 1883 |
January
17, 1885 |
Democratic |
1 |
||||
15 |
January
17, 1885 |
January
8, 1889 |
Democratic |
2 |
||||
16 |
January
8, 1889 |
January
10, 1893 |
Democratic |
2 |
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17 |
January
10, 1893 |
January
8, 1895 |
Democratic |
1 |
||||
18 |
January
8, 1895 |
January
12, 1897 |
Democratic |
1 |
||||
19 |
January
12, 1897 |
January
8, 1901 |
Democratic |
2 |
||||
20 |
January
8, 1901 |
January
8, 1907 |
Democratic |
3 |
||||
21 |
January
8, 1907 |
February
15, 1907 |
Democratic |
1⁄4[ac] |
||||
— |
February
15, 1907 |
May 14,
1907 |
Democratic |
1⁄4[ad] |
||||
— |
May 14,
1907 |
January
11, 1909 |
Democratic |
1⁄4[ae] |
||||
— |
January
11, 1909 |
January
14, 1909 |
Democratic |
1⁄4[af] |
||||
22 |
January
14, 1909 |
January
16, 1913 |
Democratic |
2 |
||||
23 |
January
16, 1913 |
March 8,
1913 |
Democratic |
1⁄4[x] |
||||
— |
March 8,
1913 |
March
13, 1913 |
Democratic |
1⁄4[ag] |
||||
— |
March
13, 1913 |
July 23,
1913 |
Democratic |
1⁄4[ah] |
||||
24 |
July 23,
1913 |
January
10, 1917 |
Democratic |
Vacant |
1⁄4[ai] |
|||
25 |
January
10, 1917 |
January
11, 1921 |
Democratic |
2 |
||||
26 |
January
11, 1921 |
January
13, 1925 |
Democratic |
2 |
||||
27 |
January
13, 1925 |
January
11, 1927 |
Democratic |
1 |
||||
28 |
January
11, 1927 |
March 4,
1928 |
Democratic |
1⁄2[aj] |
||||
29 |
March 4,
1928 |
January
10, 1933 |
Democratic |
2 1⁄2[ak] |
||||
30 |
January
10, 1933 |
January
12, 1937 |
Democratic |
2 |
||||
31 |
January
12, 1937 |
January
14, 1941 |
Democratic |
2 |
||||
32 |
January
14, 1941 |
January
9, 1945 |
Democratic |
2 |
||||
33 |
January
9, 1945 |
January
11, 1949 |
Democratic |
2 |
||||
34 |
January
11, 1949 |
January
13, 1953 |
Democratic |
2 |
||||
35 |
January
13, 1953 |
January
11, 1955 |
Democratic |
1 |
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36 |
January
11, 1955 |
January
10, 1967 |
Democratic |
6 |
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37 |
January
10, 1967 |
January
12, 1971 |
Republican |
2 |
||||
38 |
January
12, 1971 |
January
3, 1975 |
Democratic |
1 1⁄2[x] |
||||
— |
January
3, 1975 |
January
14, 1975 |
Democratic |
Acting
as governor |
1⁄2[al] |
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39 |
January
14, 1975 |
January
3, 1979 |
Democratic |
1 1⁄2[x] |
||||
— |
January
3, 1979 |
January
9, 1979 |
Democratic |
Acting
as governor |
1⁄2[al] |
|||
40 |
January
9, 1979 |
January
19, 1981 |
Democratic |
1 |
||||
41 |
January
19, 1981 |
January
11, 1983 |
Republican |
1 |
||||
42 |
January
11, 1983 |
December
12, 1992 |
Democratic |
|||||
43 |
December
12, 1992 |
July 15,
1996 |
Democratic |
|||||
44 |
July 15,
1996 |
January
9, 2007 |
Republican |
2 1⁄2[ak] |
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45 |
January
9, 2007 |
Incumbent |
Democratic |
2[ar] |
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