List of Arkansas Governors

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Asa Hutchinson, the current governor of Arkansas

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 .

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