ARKANSAS GOVERNORS
Dates in office

Births-Deaths-Interments in next list
Compiled by Charlotte Curlee Ramsey


FIRST NAME	    LAST NAME	            PARTY       TERM
During this period Arkansas was a part of the territory of Louisiana				
		         Under French Rule			
Marquia	            de Sanville				1699-1701
	            Bienville				1701-1712
Lamothe	            Cadillac				1712-1716
	            De L'Epinay				1717-1718
	            Bienville				1718-1724
	            Boisbrant	     ad interim	        1724-1726
	            Perier				1726-1734
	            Bienville				1734-1743
Marquis	            de Vaureuil				1743-1753
Baron	            de Kelerec				1753-1763
	            D'Abbadie				1765-1766
		         Under Spanish Rule			
Antonia	            de Ulloa				1767-1768
Alexander	    O'Reilly				1769-1770
Luis	            de Unzaga				1770-1777
Bernardo	    de Galvez				1777-1784
Estevan	            Miro				1784-1791
Francisco	    de Luis Hortu - Baron of Carondelet	1791-1797
Gayaoso 	    de Lemos				1797-1799
Sebastian	    de Caso Calvo y O'Farrell		1799-1801
Juan Manual	    de Salsedo				1801-1803
		         Louisiana Territory			
C.C.	            Claibourne			        1803
		         District of Upper Louisiana			
William Henry, Gen. Harrison				1804
		         Territory of Louisiana			
James, General	    Wilkerson				1805-1807
Merriweather	    Lewis				1807-1809
Benjamin A.	    Howard				1809-1812
		         Territory of Missouri			
Benjamin A.	    Howard				1812-1813
William, Captain    Clark				1813-1819
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                         Territory of Arkansas
Robert		    Crittenden  1st acting governor of Arkansas Territory	
James, General	    Miller      1st        governor of Arkansas Territory 3 Mar 1819-1825
George, General	    Izard       2nd        governor of Arkansas Territory 4 Mar 1825-Nov 1829
John		    Pope        3rd        governor of Arkansas Territory 9 Mar 1829-1835
William S.	    Fulton      4th        governor of Arkansas Territory 9 Mar 1835-1836
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James Sevier	    Conway      1st	     D 1836-1840
Archibald	    Yell        2nd	     D 1840 4-29-1844 
Samuel		    Adams       2nd  acting  D 4-29-1844 11-5-1844
Thomas S.	    Drew        3rd	       1844-1-10-1849
Richard C.	    Byrd        3rd  acting  D 11-5-1844 4-19-1849
John Seldon	    Roane       4th	     D 1849-1852
Elias Nelson	    Conway      5th	     D 1852-1860
Henry Massey	    Rector      6th	     D 1860-1862
Harris		    Flanagin    7th	     D (Conf) 1862-1864
Isaac		    Murphy      8th	       (Union)1864-1868
Powell		    Clayton     9th	     R 1868 3-17-1871
Ozra A.		    Hadley      9th  acting  R 1871-1873
Elisha		    Baxter      10th	     R 1873-1874
Joseph		    Brooks           interim   15 APR 1874
Augustus Hill	    Garland     11th         D 1874-1877
William Reed	    Miller      12th         D 1877-1881
Thomas J.	    Churchill   13th         D 1881-1883
James Henderson	    Berry       14th	     D 1883-1885
Simon P.	    Hughes      15th         D 1885-1889
James Philip	    Eagle       16th         D 1889-1893
William Meade	    Fishback    17th         D 1893-1895
James P.	    Clarke      18th         D 1895-1897
Daniel Webster	    Jones       19th         D 1897-1901
Jefferson	    Davis       20th         D 1901-1907 (3 Terms)
John Sebastian	    Little      21st         D 1907- (3 days)
John Ike	    Moore       21st acting  D Pres. Senate 11 Feb-14 May 1907
X. O.		    Pindall     21st acting    Pres. Senate 5-14-1907 1-14-09
Jesse		    Martin      21st acting    Pres. Senate/gov 3 dys
George Washington   Donaghey    22nd         D 1909-1913
Joseph Taylor	    Robinson    23rd         D 1913 resigned 3-10-13
W. K.		    Oldham      23rd acting  D Pres. Senate/gov 1913
J. M.	 	    Futrell     23rd acting  D Pres. Senate/gov until 7-23-13
George Washington   Hays        24th	     D 1913-1917
Charles Hillman Dr. Brough      25th	     D 1917-1921
Thomas Chipman	    McRae       26th         D 1921-1925
Thomas J.	    Terral      27th	     D 1925-1927
John Ellis	    Martineau   28th         D 1927 3-4-1928
Harvey		    Parnell     29th	     D (1st LG)	1928-1933
Junius Marion	    Futrell     30th         D 1933-1937
Carl E.		    Bailey      31st	     D 1937-1941
Homer Martin	    Adkins      32nd         D 1941-1945
Benjamin T.	    Laney       33rd         D 1945-1949
Sidney Sanders	    McMath      34th         D 1949-1953
Francis	            Cherry      35th         D 1953-1955
Orville Eugene	    Faubus      36th         D 1955-1967 (6 terms)
Winthrop	    Rockefeller 37th	     R 1967-1971
Dale L.		    Bumpers	38th         D 1971-1975
David H.	    Pryor	39th         D 1975-1979
William Jefferson   Clinton	40th         D Jan 1979-1981
Frank D.	    White	41st	     R 1981-1983
William Jefferson   Clinton	42nd         D 1983 12-12-92 for president
Jim Guy		    Tucker	43rd acting  D (LG) 12-12-1992 1994
Jim Guy		    Tucker	43rd elected D 11-8-94 7-15-96 resigned
Mike		    Huckabee    44th acting  R (LG) 15 Jul 1996-1998
Mike		    Huckabee	44th elected R 3 Nov 1998-
Mike		    Beebe	45th elected D 9 Jan 2007-


ARKANSAS GOVERNORS
Births-Deaths-Interments
NAME			   BORN	       DIED	     INTERRED
Conway, James Sevier       09 DEC 1798 03 MAR 1855   Conway Cemetery State Park-Walnut Hill AR 
Yell, Archibald                   1797 22 FEB 1847   Evergreen Cemetery-Fayetteville AR-Yell Co
Adams, Samuel              05 JUN 1805 27 FEB 1850   Mt. Holly Cemetery-Little Rock AR 
Drew, Thomas Stevenson     25 AUG 1802        1879   Lipan TX or Pocahontas AR       
Byrd, Richard C.                  1805 01 JUN 1854   unknown
Roane, John Seldon         08 JAN 1817 17 APR 1867   Oakland Cemetery-Little Rock AR 
Conway, Elias Nelson       17 MAY 1812 28 FEB 1892   Mt. Holly Cemetery-Little Rock AR 
Rector, Henry Massey       01 MAY 1816 12 AUG 1899   unknown 
Flanagin, Harris           03 NOV 1817 23 SEP 1874   unknown
Murphy, Isaac              16 OCT 1802 08 SEP 1882   unknown
Clayton, Powell            07 AUG 1833 25 AUG 1914   Arlington National Cemetery-Arlington VA 
Hadley, Ozra A.            30 JUN 1826 18 JUL 1915   unknown
Baxter, Elisha             01 SEP 1827 31 MAY 1899   Oak Lawn Cemetery-Batesville Ark
Garland, Augustus Hill     11 JUN 1832 26 JAN 1899   Mt. Holly Cemetery-Little Rock AR
Miller, William Read       23 NOV 1823 29 NOV 1887   Mt. Holly Cemetery-Little Rock AR
Churchill, Thomas James    10 MAR 1824 10 MAR 1905   Mt. Holly Cemetery-Little Rock AR
Berry, James Henderson     15 MAY 1841 30 JAN 1913   Knights of Pythias Cemetery-Bentonville AR
Hughes, Simon P.           14 APR 1830 29 JUN 1906   Mt. Holly Cemetery-Little Rock AR
Eagle, James Philip        10 AUG 1837 20 DEC 1904   Mt. Holly Cemetery-Little Rock AR
Fishback, William Meade    05 NOV 1831 09 FEB 1903   Oak Hill Cemetery-Fort Smith AR    
Clarke, James Paul         18 AUG 1854 01 OCT 1916   Oakland Cemetery-Little Rock AR
Jones, Daniel Webster      15 DEC 1839 25 DEC 1918   unknown
Davis, Jeff                06 MAY 1862 03 JAN 1913   Mt. Holly Cemetery-Little Rock AR
Little, John Sebastian     15 MAR 1853 29 OCT 1916   City Cemetery-Greenwood AR
Moore, John I.             07 FEB 1856 18 MAR 1937   unknown
Pindall, Xenophon Overton  21 AUG 1873 02 JAN 1935   unknown
Martin, Jesse
Donaghey, George W.        01 JUL 1856 15 DEC 1937   unknown
Robinson, Joseph Taylor    26 AUG 1872 14 JUL 1937   Roselawn Memorial Park-Little Rock AR
Oldham, William Kavanaugh  29 MAY 1865 06 MAY 1938   Oaklawn Cemetery-Little Rock AR 
Futrell, Junius Marion     14 AUG 1870 20 JUN 1955   Linwood Cemetery-Paragould AR 
Hays, George Washington    23 SEP 1863 15 SEP 1927   unknown
Brough, Charles Hillman    09 JUL 1876 26 DEC 1935   unknown
McRae, Thomas Chipman      21 DEC 1851 02 JUN 1929   De Ann Cemetery-Prescott AR
Terral, Thomas Jefferson   21 DEC 1882 09 MAR 1946   unknown
Martineau, John Ellis      02 DEC 1873 06 MAR 1937   unknown
Parnell, Harvey            28 FEB 1880 16 JAN 1936   Roselawn Memorial Park-Little Rock AR 
Futrell, Junius Marion            <see above> 
Bailey, Carl Edward        08 OCT 1894 23 OCT 1948   Roselawn Memorial Park-Little Rock AR
Adkins, Homer Martin       15 OCT 1890 26 FEB 1964   Roselawn Memorial Park-Little Rock AR
Laney, Benjamin Travis     25 NOV 1896 21 JAN 1977   Camden AR
McMath, Sidney Sanders     14 JUN 1912 (Living)
Cherry, Francis Adams      08 SEP 1908 15 JUL 1965   unknown
Faubus, Orval Eugene       07 JAN 1910 14 DEC 1994   Combs Cemetery-Combs AR 
Rockefeller, Winthrop      01 MAY 1912 22 FEB 1973   Cremated-ashes scattered 
Bumpers, Dale Leon         12 AUG 1925 (Living)
Pryor, David Hampton       29 AUG 1934 (Living)
Clinton, William Jefferson 19 AUG 1946 (Living)
White, Durward Frank Kyle  04 JUN 1933 21 May 2003   Mt. Holly Cemetery-Little Rock AR
Clinton, William Jefferson        <see above>
Tucker, James Guy, Jr.     13 JUN 1943 (Living)
Huckabee, Mike             24 AUG 1955 (Living)
Beebe, Mike	           28 DEC 1946 (Living)


Compiled by Charlotte Curlee Ramsey

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