A list of governors from the state of Arkansas.[1][2]
All of the serving governors have been males. Only one set of siblings (brothers James and Elias Conway) have served, and no father/son combination has served.
Contents
- 1 Governors of Arkansas Territory
- 2 Governors of the State of Arkansas
- 3 Further reading
- 4 Notes
Governors of Arkansas Territory[edit]
| Name |
Years
|
| James Miller
|
1819-1825
|
| George Izard
|
1825-1828
|
| Robert Crittenden
|
1828-1829
|
| John Pope
|
1829-1835
|
| William Savin Fulton
|
1835-1836
|
Governors of the State of Arkansas[edit]
| Name |
Party |
Years
|
| James Sevier Conway
|
Democrat
|
1836-1840
|
| Archibald Yell
|
Democrat
|
1840-1844
|
| Samuel Adams
|
Democrat
|
1844
|
| Thomas Stevenson Drew
|
Democrat
|
1844-1849
|
| Richard C. Byrd
|
Democrat
|
1849
|
| John Seldon Roane
|
Democrat
|
1849-1852
|
| Elias Nelson Conway
|
Democrat
|
1852-1860
|
| Henry Massey Rector
|
Democrat
|
1860-1862
|
| Harris Flanagin
|
Democrat
|
1862-1864
|
| Isaac Murphy
|
Democrat
|
1864-1868
|
| Powell Clayton
|
Republican
|
1868-1871
|
| Ozra A. Hadley
|
Republican
|
1871-1873
|
| Elisha Baxter
|
Republican
|
1873-1874
|
| Augustus Hill Garland
|
Democrat
|
1874-1877
|
| William Read Miller
|
Democrat
|
1877-1881
|
| Thomas James Churchill
|
Democrat
|
1881-1883
|
| James Henderson Berry
|
Democrat
|
1883-1885
|
| Simon P. Hughes
|
Democrat
|
1885-1889
|
| James Phillip Eagle
|
Democrat
|
1889-1893
|
| William Meade Fishback
|
Democrat
|
1893-1895
|
| James Paul Clarke
|
Democrat
|
1895-1897
|
| Daniel Webster Jones
|
Democrat
|
1897-1901
|
| Jefferson Davis
|
Democrat
|
1901-1907
|
| John Sebastien Little
|
Democrat
|
1907
|
| Xenophon Overton Pindall
|
Democrat
|
1907-1909
|
| George W. Donaghey
|
Democrat
|
1909-1913
|
| Joseph Taylor Robinson
|
Democrat
|
1913
|
| William Kavanaugh Oldham
|
Democrat
|
1913
|
| Junius Marion Futrell
|
Democrat
|
1913, 1933-1937
|
| George Washington Hays
|
Democrat
|
1913-1917
|
| Charles Hillman Brough
|
Democrat
|
1917-1921
|
| Thomas Chipman McRae
|
Democrat
|
1921-1925
|
| Thomas Jefferson Terral
|
Democrat
|
1925-1927
|
| John Ellis Martineau
|
Democrat
|
1927-1928
|
| Harvey Parnell
|
Democrat
|
1928-1933
|
| Carl Edward Bailey
|
Democrat
|
1937-1941
|
| Homer Martin Adkins
|
Democrat
|
1941-1945
|
| Benjamin Travis Laney, Jr
|
Democrat
|
1945-1949
|
| Sidney Sanders McMath
|
Democrat
|
1949-1953
|
| Francis Adams Cherry
|
Democrat
|
1953-1955
|
| Orval Eugene Faubus
|
Democrat
|
1955-1967
|
| Winthrop Rockefeller
|
Republican
|
1967-1971
|
| Dale Bumpers
|
Democrat
|
1971-1975
|
| David Hampton Pryor
|
Democrat
|
1975-1979
|
| William Jefferson Clinton
|
Democrat
|
1979–1981, 1983-1992
|
| Frank D. White
|
Republican
|
1981-1983
|
| Jim Guy Tucker
|
Democrat
|
1992-1996
|
| Mike Huckabee
|
Republican
|
1996-2007
|
| Mike Beebe
|
Democrat
|
2007–2015
|
| Asa Hutchinson
|
Republican
|
2015–present
|
Further reading[edit]
- Timothy Paul Donovan and Willard B. Gatewood, eds. The Governors of Arkansas: Essays in Political Biography (1995), essays by scholars (ISBN 1557283311 / 1-55728-331-1)
Notes[edit]
- ↑ http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.8fd3d12ab65b304f8a278110501010a0?submit=Submit&State=AR
- ↑ http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/List-of-Arkansas-Governors
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