Governors of Arkansas

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]

1. ↑ http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.8fd3d12ab65b304f8a278110501010a0?submit=Submit&State=AR
2. ↑ http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/List-of-Arkansas-Governors

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