Fred Armstrong Northwest Arkansas Times Dec 10, 1938 Young Fort Smith Man's Car Overturns Near Mountainburg Fort Smith, Ark. State Senator Fred Armstrong, 35, president pro tem of the upper house during the 1937 session, was killed last night when his automobile left U. S. Highway 71 a few miles north of Mountainburg and overturned. A companion, Miss Orrnell Littleton, 27, of Fort Smith, suffered a fractured pelvis and cuts and bruises in the crash. Attendants at a hospital here, who reported her condition this morning as serious but not critical, said she was resting comfortably. Born in Oklahoma City, Jan. 19, 1903, Mr. Armstrong received his early education in the Fort Smith public schools. He later studied at Centre college, Danville, Ky.; Centenary college, Shreveport, La., and Cumberland Law school, Lebanon, Tenn., and was admitted to the bar in 1927. He had served Fort Smith as assistant city attorney and Sebastian county as representative in 1929 before being elected to the senate in 1933. The legislator had been chairman of the upper house's public service corporations committee and was a member of several other committees. He had served two terms in the senate and was re-elected in the Nov. 8 general election. Mr. Armstrong was a delegate to several democratic state contentions. He was a member of the Baptist church and of Beta Theta Pi fraternity. He was a brother of Henry Armstrong, regional Works Progress Administrator director and chairman of the county democratic committee. Other survivors include his mother, a second brother, Norris, of Danville, Ky., and a sister, Ruth, member of the Fort Smith high school faculty. Miss Littleton was brought to a hospital here where she was reported not seriously injured. A former resident of Little Rock, she had been employed here several weeks by the National Bituminous Coal commission.