List of Arkansas Governors
This list includes all governors of the US state of Arkansas and the pre-existing Arkansas Territory .
Arkansas Territory
Surname | Term of office | Political party |
---|---|---|
James Miller | 1819-1825 | |
George Izard | 1825-1828 | |
Robert Crittenden | 1828-1829 | |
John Pope | 1829-1835 | democrat |
William Savin Fulton | 1835-1836 | democrat |
State of Arkansas
Surname | Term of office | Political party |
---|---|---|
James Sevier Conway | 1836-1840 | democrat |
Archibald Yell | 1840-1844 | democrat |
Samuel Adams | 1844 | democrat |
Thomas Stevenson Drew | 1844-1849 | democrat |
Richard C. Byrd | 1849 | democrat |
John Selden Roane | 1849-1852 | democrat |
Elias Nelson Conway | 1852-1860 | democrat |
Henry Massey Rector | 1860-1862 | democrat |
Harris Flanagin | 1862-1864 | democrat |
Isaac Murphy | 1864-1868 | unionist |
Powell Clayton | 1868-1871 | republican |
Ozra Amander Hadley | 1871-1873 | republican |
Elisha Baxter | 1873-1874 | republican |
Augustus Hill Garland | 1874-1877 | democrat |
William Read Miller | 1877-1881 | democrat |
Thomas James Churchill | 1881-1883 | democrat |
James Henderson Berry | 1883-1885 | democrat |
Simon Pollard Hughes Jr. | 1885-1889 | democrat |
James Philip Eagle | 1889-1893 | democrat |
William Meade Fishback | 1893-1895 | democrat |
James Paul Clarke | 1895-1897 | democrat |
Daniel Webster Jones | 1897-1901 | democrat |
Jefferson Davis | 1901-1907 | democrat |
John Sebastian Little | 1907 | democrat |
John Isaac Moore | 1907 | democrat |
Xenophon Overton Pindall | 1907-1909 | democrat |
Jesse M. Martin | 1909 | democrat |
George Washington Donaghey | 1909-1913 | democrat |
Joseph Taylor Robinson | 1913 | democrat |
William Kavanaugh Oldham | 1913 | democrat |
Junius Marion Futrell | 1913 | democrat |
George Washington Hays | 1913-1917 | democrat |
Charles Hillman Brough | 1917-1921 | democrat |
Thomas Chipman McRae | 1921-1925 | democrat |
Thomas Jefferson Terral | 1925-1927 | democrat |
John Ellis Martineau | 1927-1928 | democrat |
Harvey Parnell | 1928-1933 | democrat |
Junius Marion Futrell | 1933-1937 | democrat |
Carl Edward Bailey | 1937-1941 | democrat |
Homer Martin Adkins | 1941-1945 | democrat |
Benjamin Travis Laney | 1945-1949 | democrat |
Sidney Sanders McMath | 1949-1953 | democrat |
Francis Adams Cherry | 1953-1955 | democrat |
Orval Eugene Faubus | 1955-1967 | democrat |
Winthrop Rockefeller | 1967-1971 | republican |
Dale Leon Bumbers | 1971-1975 | democrat |
Bob Cowley Riley | 1975 | democrat |
David Hampton Pryor | 1975-1979 | democrat |
Joe Purcell | 1979 | democrat |
William Jefferson Clinton | 1979-1981 | democrat |
Frank Durward White | 1981-1983 | republican |
William Jefferson Clinton | 1983-1992 | democrat |
James Guy Tucker | 1992-1996 | democrat |
Michael Dale Huckabee | 1996-2007 | republican |
Michael Dale Beebe | 2007-2015 | democrat |
William Asa Hutchinson | since 2015 | republican |
literature
- Robert L. Brown: Defining Moments: Historic Decisions by Arkansas Governors from McMath through Huckabee. University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville 2010, ISBN 978-1-55728-944-5 .