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In 2016, I had the opportunity to visit the final resting place of Arkansas's first Governor, the Honorable James Conway. Since that time, I have been researching the life and legacy of those who answered the call to serve our state.
I hope you will follow along as I travel across Arkansas to pay my personal respect to those who served. Below you will find a complete list of governors. You may visit the Arkansas Secretary of State's office for more information about the governors. |
Territorial Governors
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#1 - James Miller
Served: 1815-1825 Buried: Temple, New Hampshire Date of Visit: TBD |
#2 George Izard
Served: 1825-1828 Buried: Little Rock, Arkansas Date of Visit: June 6, 2017 |
#3 John Pope
Served: 1829-1835 Buried: Springfield, Kentucky Date of Visit: July 17, 2018 |
#4 William Fulton
Served: 1835-1836 Buried: Little Rock, Arkansas Date of Visit: June 6, 2017 |
State Governors
#1 James S. Conway
Served: 1836-1840 Buried: Walnut Hill Plantation Date of Visit: 2016 
#4 John S. Roane
Served: 1849-1852 Buried: Little Rock, Arkansas Date of Visit: June 6, 2017 
#7 Harris Flanagin
Served: 1862-1864 Buried: Arkadelphia, Arkansas Date of Visit: February 2018 
#10 Elisha Baxter
Served: 1873-1874 Buried: Batesville, Arkansas Date of Visit: June 27, 2017 
#13 Thomas J. Churchill
Served: 1881-1883 Buried: Little Rock, Arkansas Date of Visit: June 6, 2017 
#16 James P. Eagle
Served: 1889-1893 Buried: Little Rock, Arkansas Date of Visit: June 6, 2017 
#19 Daniel W. Jones
Served: 1897-1901 Buried: Little Rock, Arkansas Date of Visit: June 6, 2017 
#22 George W. Donaghey
Served: 1909-1913 Buried: Little Rock, Arkansas Date of Visit: June 6, 2017 #25 Charles H. Brough
Served: 1917-1925 Buried: Little Rock, Arkansas Date of Visit: June 6, 2017 
#28 John E. Martineau
Served: 1927-1928 Buried: Little Rock, Arkansas Date of Visit: June 6, 2017 
#31 Carl E. Bailey
Served: 1937-1941 Buried: Little Rock, Arkansas Date of Visit: June 6, 2017 #34 Sid McMath
Served: 1949-1953 Buried: Alexander, Arkansas Date of Visit: EST-Fall 2018 
#37 Winthrop Rockefeller
Served: 1967-1971 Buried: Petit Jean Mountain, Arkansas Date of Visit: July 2017 |
#2 Archibald Yell
Served: 1840-1844 Buried: Fayetteville, Arkansas Date of Visit: 2017 
#5 Elias N. Conway
Served: 1852-1860 Buried: Little Rock, Arkansas Date of Visit: June 6, 2017 
#8 Issac Murphy
Served: 1864-1868 Buried: Huntsville, Arkansas Date of Visit: July 2017 
#11 Augustus H. Garland
Served: 1874-1877 Buried: Little Rock, Arkansas Date of Visit: June 6, 2017 
#14 James H. Berry
Served: 1883-1885 Buried: Bentonville, Arkansas Date of Visit: April 22, 2017 
#17 William M. Fishback
Served: 1893-1895 Buried: Fort Smith, Arkansas Date of Visit: April 2017 
#20 Jefferson Davis
Served: 1901-1907 Buried: Little Rock, Arkansas Date of Visit: June 6, 2017 
#23 Joe T. Robinson
Served: 1913 Buried: Little Rock, Arkansas Date of Visit: June 6, 2017 
#26 Thomas C. McRae
Served: 1921-1925 Buried: Prescott, Arkansas Date of Visit: March 2017 
#29 Harvey Parnell
Served: 1928-1933 Buried: Little Rock, Arkansas Date of Visit: June 6, 2017 
#32 Homer M. Adkins
Served: 1941-1945 Buried: Little Rock, Arkansas Date of Visit: June 6, 2017 
#35 Francis Cherry
Served: 1953-1955 Buried: Jonesboro, Arkansas Date of Visit: June 27, 2017 
#38 Dale Bumpers
Served: 1971-1975 Buried: Charleston, Arkansas Date of Visit: June 20, 2017 |
#3 Thomas S. Drew
Served: 1844-1849 Buried: Pocahontas, Arkansas Date of Visit: June 27, 2017 
#6 Henry Rector
Served: 1860-1862 Buried: Little Rock, Arkansas Date of Visit: June 6, 2017 
#9 Powell Clayton
Served: 1868-1871 Buried: Arlington National Cemetery Date of Visit: July 7, 2018 
#12 William R. Miller
Served: 1877-1881 Buried: Little Rock, Arkansas Date of Visit: June 6, 2017 
#15 Simon P. Hughes
Served: 1885-1889 Buried: Little Rock, Arkansas Date of Visit: June 6, 2017 
#18 James P. Clarke
Served: 1895-1897 Buried: Little Rock, Arkansas Date of Visit: June 6, 2017 
#21 John S. Little
Served: 1907 Buried: Greenwood, Arkansas Date of Visit: April 2017 
#24 George W. Hays
Served: 1913-1917 Buried: Camden, Arkansas Date of Visit: May 13, 2017 #27 Thomas J. Terral
Served: 1925-1927 Buried: Little Rock, Arkansas Date of Visit: June 6, 2017 
#30 J. Marion Futrell
Served: 1933-1937 Buried: Paragould, Arkansas Date of Visit: June 27, 2017 
#33 Ben Laney Jr.
Served: 1945-1949 Buried: Camden, Arkansas Date of Visit: May 13, 2017 
#36 Orval Faubus
Served: 1955-1967 Buried: Combs, Arkansas Date of Visit: July 2017 
#41 Frank White
Served: 1981-1983 Buried: Little Rock, Arkansas Date of Visit: June 6, 2017 |
In order to have a complete list of Arkansas Governors, the remaining are included below.
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#39 David Pryor
Served: 1975-1979 #43 Jim Guy Tucker
Served: 1992-1996 #46 Asa Hutchinson
Served: 2015 - Present |
#40 Bill Clinton
Served: 1979-1981; 1983-1992 #44 Mike Huckabee
Served: 1996-2007 |
#42 #40 Bill Clinton
Served: 1979-1981; 1983-1992 #45 Mike Beebe
Served: 2007-2015 |
