List of Governors of Arkansas

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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 Governor-Elect



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