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This is a list of governors of the Arkansas Territory and the U.S. state of Arkansas.
[edit] Territorial Governors, 1819-1836
[edit] State Governors, 1836-present
# |
Name |
Party |
Took office |
Left office |
1 |
James Sevier Conway |
Democratic |
1836 |
1840 |
2 |
Archibald Yell |
Democratic |
1840 |
1844 |
3 |
Samuel Adams |
Democratic, acting |
1844 |
4 |
Thomas Stevenson Drew |
Democratic |
1844 |
1849 |
5 |
Richard C. Byrd |
Democratic, acting |
1849 |
6 |
John Selden Roane |
Democratic |
1849 |
1852 |
7 |
Elias Nelson Conway |
Democratic |
1852 |
1860 |
8 |
Henry Massey Rector |
Democratic |
1860 |
1862 |
9 |
Harris Flanagin |
Democratic |
1862 |
1864 |
10 |
Isaac Murphy |
Unionist |
1864 |
1868 |
11 |
Powell Clayton |
Republican |
1868 |
1871 |
12 |
Ozra Amander Hadley |
Republican, acting |
1871 |
1873 |
13 |
Elisha Baxter |
Republican |
1873 |
1874 |
14 |
Augustus Hill Garland |
Democratic |
1874 |
1877 |
15 |
William Read Miller |
Democratic |
1877 |
1881 |
16 |
Thomas James Churchill |
Democratic |
1881 |
1883 |
17 |
James Henderson Berry |
Democratic |
1883 |
1885 |
18 |
Simon Pollard Hughes, Jr. |
Democratic |
1885 |
1889 |
19 |
James Philip Eagle |
Democratic |
1889 |
1893 |
20 |
William Meade Fishback |
Democratic |
1893 |
1895 |
21 |
James Paul Clarke |
Democratic |
1895 |
1897 |
22 |
Daniel Webster Jones |
Democratic |
1897 |
1901 |
23 |
Jefferson Davis |
Democratic |
1901 |
1907 |
24 |
John Sebastian Little |
Democratic |
1907 |
25 |
John Isaac Moore |
Democratic, acting |
1907 |
26 |
Xenophon Overton Pindall |
Democratic, acting |
1907 |
1909 |
27 |
Jesse M. Martin |
Democratic, acting |
1909 |
28 |
George Washington Donaghey |
Democratic |
1909 |
1913 |
29 |
Joseph Taylor Robinson |
Democratic |
1913 |
30 |
William Kavanaugh Oldham |
Democratic, acting |
1913 |
31 |
Junius Marion Futrell |
Democratic, acting |
1913 |
32 |
George Washington Hays |
Democratic |
1913 |
1917 |
33 |
Charles Hillman Brough |
Democratic |
1917 |
1921 |
34 |
Thomas Chipman McRae |
Democratic |
1921 |
1925 |
35 |
Tom Jefferson Terral |
Democratic |
1925 |
1927 |
36 |
John Ellis Martineau |
Democratic |
1927 |
1928 |
37 |
Harvey Parnell |
Democratic |
1928 |
1933 |
38 |
Junius Marion Futrell |
Democratic |
1933 |
1937 |
39 |
Carl Edward Bailey |
Democratic |
1937 |
1941 |
40 |
Homer Martin Adkins |
Democratic |
1941 |
1945 |
41 |
Benjamin Travis Laney |
Democratic |
1945 |
1949 |
42 |
Sidney Sanders McMath |
Democratic |
1949 |
1953 |
43 |
Francis Cherry |
Democratic |
1953 |
1955 |
44 |
Orval Faubus |
Democratic |
1955 |
1967 |
45 |
Winthrop Rockefeller |
Republican |
1967 |
1971 |
46 |
Dale Bumpers |
Democratic |
1971 |
1975 |
47 |
Bob C. Riley |
Democratic, |
1975 |
48 |
David Pryor |
Democratic |
1975 |
1979 |
49 |
Joe Purcell |
Democratic, |
1979 |
50 |
William J. Clinton |
Democratic |
1979 |
1981 |
51 |
Frank D. White |
Republican |
1981 |
1983 |
52 |
William J. Clinton |
Democratic |
1983 |
1992 |
53 |
Jim Guy Tucker |
Democratic |
1992 |
1996 |
54 |
Mike Huckabee |
Republican |
1996 |
2007 |
55 |
Mike Beebe |
Democratic |
2007 |
Current |