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List of Governors of Arkansas

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Governor of Arkansas
Great Seal of Arkansas
Incumbent Asa Hutchinson since January 13, 2015
Style	The Honorable
Residence	Arkansas Governor's Mansion
Term length	Four years, renewable once
Inaugural holder	James Sevier Conway
Formation	1836; Constitution of Arkansas
Succession	Every four years, unless re-elected.
Salary	$86,890 (2013)[1]

The Governor of Arkansas is the head of the executive branch of Arkansas's state government and the commander-in-chief of thestate's military forces. The governor has a duty to enforce state laws, and the power to either approve or veto bills passed by the Arkansas Legislature, to convene the legislature, and to grant pardons, except in cases of treason and impeachment.^[2]

The state has had 45 elected governors, as well as 10 acting governors who assumed powers and duties following the resignation or death of the governor, totaling 55 distinct terms. Before becoming a state, Arkansas Territory had four governors appointed to it by the President of the United States. Orval Faubus served the longest term as state governor, being elected six times to serve twelve years. Bill Clinton, elected five times over two distinct terms, fell only one month short of twelve years. The shortest term for an elected governor was the 38 days served by John Sebastian Little before his nervous breakdown; one of the acting successors to his term, Jesse M. Martin, served only three days, the shortest stint overall. The current governor is Asa Hutchinson, who took office on January 13, 2015 after his election on November 4, 2014.

Contents

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• 1Governors
  • 1.1Governors of the Territory of Arkansas
  • 1.2Governors of the State of Arkansas
• 2Living former U.S. governors of Arkansas
• 3Notes
• 4References
• 5External links

Governors[edit]

Governors of the Territory of Arkansas[edit]

For the period before Arkansas Territory was formed, see the list of Governors of Missouri Territory.

Arkansaw Territory (renamed Arkansas Territory around 1822^[a]) was split from Missouri Territory on July 4, 1819. It lost land twice, on November 15, 1824, and May 6, 1828, with the land being made unorganized territory both times; this land eventually became part of Oklahoma.

As secretary of the territory from 1819 to 1829, Robert Crittenden served as acting governor whenever the appointed governor was not in the state. This meant he was in fact the first person to perform the office of Governor of Arkansas Territory, since James Miller did not arrive in the territory until nine months after his appointment.^[4]

#	Picture	Governor	Term in office	Appointed by	Notes
1		James Miller	March 3, 1819 – December 27, 1824	James Monroe	[b][c]
2		George Izard	March 4, 1825 – November 22, 1828		[d][e]
				John Quincy Adams
3		John Pope	March 9, 1829[8] – March 9, 1835	Andrew Jackson	[f][g]
4		William S. Fulton	March 9, 1835 – June 15, 1836		[h]

Governors of the State of Arkansas[edit]

Arkansas was admitted to the Union on June 15, 1836. It seceded from the Union on May 6, 1861, and joined the Confederate States of America on May 18, 1861; there was no Union government in exile, so there was a single line of governors, though as the state fell to Union forces there was a loyalist government put in place with an insignificant Confederate government in exile. Following the end of the American Civil War, it was part of the Fourth Military District. Arkansas was readmitted to the Union on June 22, 1868.

The first state constitution of 1836 established four-year terms for governors,^[12] which was lowered to two years in the 1874, and current, constitution.^[13] Amendment 63 to the Arkansas Constitution, passed in 1984, increased the terms of both governor and lieutenant governor to four years.^[14] Governors were originally limited only to serving no more than eight out of every twelve years,^[12] but the 1874 constitution removed any term limit. A referendum in 1992 limited governors to two terms.^[15]

Until 1864, the constitutions provided that, should the office of governor be rendered vacant, the president of the senate would serve as acting governor until such time as a new governor were elected or the disability removed, or the acting governor's senate term expired.^[16][17] This led to some situations where the governorship changed hands in quick succession, due to senate terms ending or new senate presidents being elected. For example, after John Sebastian Little resigned in 1907, three senate presidents acted as governor before the next elected governor took office. Should the president of the senate be similarly incapacitated, the next in line for the governorship was the speaker of the state house of representatives.

The 1864 constitution created the office of lieutenant governor^[18] who would also act as president of the senate,^[19] and who would serve as acting governor in case of vacancy.^[20] The 1868 constitution maintained the position,^[21] but the 1874 constitution removed it and returned to the original line of succession.^[22] Amendment 6 to the constitution, passed in 1914 but not recognized until 1925,^[23] recreated the office of lieutenant governor, who becomes governor in case of vacancy of the governor's office.^[24]The governor and lieutenant governor are not elected on the same ticket.

Arkansas was a strongly Democratic state before the Civil War, electing only candidates from the Democratic party. It elected three Republican governors following Reconstruction, but after the Democratic Party re-established control, 92 years passed before voters chose another Republican.

Parties

      Democratic (48)^[i]       Republican (7)^[j]

#[k]	Portrait	Governor		Term in office[l]	Party	Term[m]	Lt. Governor[n][o]
1			James Sevier Conway	September 13, 1836 – November 4, 1840	Democratic	1	Office did not exist
2			Archibald Yell	November 4, 1840 – April 29, 1844	Democratic	2[p]
—			Samuel Adams	April 29, 1844 – November 5, 1844	Democratic
3			Thomas Stevenson Drew	November 5, 1844 – January 10, 1849	Democratic	3
						4[q]
—			Richard C. Byrd	January 10, 1849 – April 19, 1849	Democratic
4			John Selden Roane	April 19, 1849 – November 15, 1852	Democratic
5			Elias Nelson Conway	November 15, 1852 – November 16, 1860	Democratic	5
						6
6			Henry Massey Rector	November 16, 1860 – November 4, 1862	Democratic	7[r][s]
—			Thomas Fletcher	November 4, 1862 – November 15, 1862	Democratic
7			Harris Flanagin	November 15, 1862 – May 26, 1865[t]	Democratic	8[u][v]
8			Isaac Murphy	April 18, 1864 – July 2, 1868	Republican	9[u]		Calvin C. Bliss[37]
9			Powell Clayton	July 2, 1868 – March 17, 1871	Republican	10[w]		James M. Johnson[39][x]
							Vacant
—			Ozra Amander Hadley[y]	March 17, 1871 – January 6, 1873	Republican
10			Elisha Baxter	January 6, 1873 – November 12, 1874	Republican	11[z][aa]		Volney V. Smith[41]
11			Augustus Hill Garland	November 12, 1874 – January 11, 1877	Democratic	12	Office did not exist
						13
12			William Read Miller	January 11, 1877 – January 13, 1881	Democratic	14
						15
13			Thomas James Churchill	January 13, 1881 – January 13, 1883	Democratic	16
14			James Henderson Berry	January 13, 1883 – January 15, 1885[ab]	Democratic	17
15			Simon Pollard Hughes, Jr.	January 17, 1885[ab] – January 17, 1889	Democratic	18
						19
16			James Philip Eagle	January 17, 1889 – January 14, 1893	Democratic	20
						21
17			William Meade Fishback	January 14, 1893 – January 18, 1895	Democratic	22
18			James Paul Clarke	January 18, 1895 – January 18, 1897	Democratic	23
19			Daniel Webster Jones	January 18, 1897 – January 18, 1901	Democratic	24
						25
20			Jeff Davis	January 18, 1901 – January 18, 1907	Democratic	26
						27
						28
21			John Sebastian Little	January 18, 1907 – February 11, 1907[ac]	Democratic	29[ad]
—			John Isaac Moore	February 11, 1907[ac] – May 14, 1907	Democratic
—			Xenophon Overton Pindall	May 14, 1907 – January 11, 1909	Democratic
—			Jesse M. Martin	January 11, 1909 – January 14, 1909	Democratic
22			George Washington Donaghey	January 14, 1909 – January 16, 1913	Democratic	30
						31
23			Joseph Taylor Robinson	January 16, 1913 – March 8, 1913	Democratic	32[ae]
—			William Kavanaugh Oldham	March 8, 1913 – March 13, 1913	Democratic
—			Junius Marion Futrell	March 13, 1913 – August 6, 1913[af]	Democratic
24			George Washington Hays	August 6, 1913[af] – January 10, 1917[ag]	Democratic		Vacant
25			Charles Hillman Brough	January 10, 1917[ag] – January 11, 1921[ah]	Democratic	33
						34
26			Thomas Chipman McRae	January 11, 1921[ah] – January 13, 1925[58]	Democratic	35
						36
27			Tom Jefferson Terral	January 13, 1925[58] – January 11, 1927	Democratic	37
28			John Ellis Martineau	January 11, 1927 – March 2, 1928	Democratic	38[ai]		Harvey Parnell
29			Harvey Parnell	March 2, 1928 – January 10, 1933	Democratic		Vacant
						39		William Lee Cazort
						40		Lawrence Elery Wilson
30			Junius Marion Futrell	January 10, 1933 – January 12, 1937	Democratic	41		William Lee Cazort
						42
31			Carl Edward Bailey	January 12, 1937 – January 14, 1941	Democratic	43		Robert L. Bailey
						44
32			Homer Martin Adkins	January 14, 1941 – January 9, 1945	Democratic	45
						46		James L. Shaver
33			Benjamin Travis Laney	January 9, 1945 – January 11, 1949	Democratic	47
						48		Nathan Green Gordon
34			Sid McMath	January 11, 1949 – January 13, 1953	Democratic	49
						50
35			Francis Cherry	January 13, 1953 – January 11, 1955	Democratic	51
36			Orval Faubus	January 11, 1955 – January 10, 1967	Democratic	52
						53
						54
						55
						56
						57
37			Winthrop Rockefeller	January 10, 1967 – January 12, 1971	Republican	58		Maurice Britt
						59
38			Dale Bumpers	January 12, 1971 – January 3, 1975[60]	Democratic	60		Bob C. Riley
						61[aj]
—			Bob C. Riley	January 3, 1975[60] – January 14, 1975	Democratic		Acting as governor
39			David Pryor	January 14, 1975 – January 3, 1979	Democratic	62		Joe Purcell
						63[ak]
—			Joe Purcell	January 3, 1979 – January 9, 1979	Democratic		Acting as governor
40			Bill Clinton	January 9, 1979 – January 19, 1981	Democratic	64		Joe Purcell
41			Frank D. White	January 19, 1981 – January 11, 1983	Republican	65		Winston Bryant[al]
42			Bill Clinton	January 11, 1983 – December 12, 1992	Democratic	66
						67
						68[am]
						69[an]		Jim Guy Tucker
43			Jim Guy Tucker	December 12, 1992 – July 15, 1996	Democratic		Vacant
						70[ao]		Mike Huckabee[ap]
44			Mike Huckabee	July 15, 1996 – January 9, 2007	Republican		Vacant
								Winthrop P. Rockefeller[e]
						71
						72
							Vacant
45			Mike Beebe	January 9, 2007 – January 13, 2015	Democratic	73		Bill Halter
						74		Mark Darr[ap]
							Vacant
46			Asa Hutchinson	January 13, 2015 – Incumbent	Republican	75[aq]		Tim Griffin

Living former U.S. governors of Arkansas[edit]

As of January 2016, there are five former U.S. governors of Arkansas who are currently living at this time, the oldest U.S. governor of Arkansas being David Pryor (served 1975–1979, born 1934). The most recent death of a former U.S. governor of Arkansas was that of Dale Bumpers (served 1971–1975, born 1925), who died on January 1, 2016. The most recently serving governor to die was Frank D. White, who served from 1981 to 1983 and died on May 21, 2003.

Governor	Gubernatorial term	Date of birth (and age)
David Pryor	1975–1979	August 29, 1934 (age 81)
Bill Clinton	1979–1981 1983–1992	August 19, 1946 (age 69)
Jim Guy Tucker	1992–1996	June 12, 1943 (age 72)
Mike Huckabee	1996–2007	August 24, 1955 (age 60)
Mike Beebe	2007–2015	December 28, 1946 (age 69)