- Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. He was the third-youngest president, older only than Theodore Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy. He became president at the end of the Cold War, and as he was born in the period after World War II, is known as the first Baby Boomer president. - Mike Huckabee
Michael Dale "Mike" Huckabee (born August 24, 1955) is the former governor of the U.S. state of Arkansas, having served from 1996 to 2007, who is a candidate in the United States presidential election, 2008. He was only the third Republican governor of the state since Reconstruction. He officially announced his candidacy for the United States presidential election, 2008 on January 28, 2007. - Jefferson Davis
Jefferson "Jeff" Davis (6 May 1862 - 3 January 1913) was a Democratic United States Senator from Arkansas and also served as governor of the U.S. state of Arkansas. - Jim Guy Tucker
James "Jim" Guy Tucker, Jr. (born June 12 1943) is a former governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, and a member of the United States House of Representatives from Arkansas. Tucker resigned the governorship on July 16, 1996, after his conviction for fraud during the Whitewater scandal although the conviction was not directly related to that investigation of Bill and Hillary Clinton's real estate and related business dealings. - Dale Bumpers
Dale Leon Bumpers (born 12 August 1925) is an American politician who served as Governor of Arkansas from 1971 to 1975; and then in United States Senate from 1975 until his retirement in January 1999. He is member of the Democratic Party. - David Pryor
David Hampton Pryor (born August 29, 1934) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives and United States Senator from the State of Arkansas. Pryor also served as Governor of Arkansas from 1975 to 1979 and was a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1960 to 1966. Pryor was born in Camden, the seat of Ouachita County in southern Arkansas, to William Edgar Pryor and the former Susan Newton. - John McDonnell
John McDonnell (born July 2, 1938) is the current head coach for the University of Arkansas Razorbacks track team. He began as the cross country track coach for the University in 1972 and became head track coach in 1978. - Juanita Broaddrick
Juanita Broaddrick is an American former nursing home administrator from Arkansas. She alleged in 1998 that United States President Bill Clinton had raped her two decades earlier. In November 1998, Broaddrick gave an interview (transcript) to "Dateline NBC". The interview, broadcast in February 1999, centered around Broaddrick's accusation that Bill Clinton had raped her on April 25, 1978 during his first campaign for the governorship of the U.S. state of Arkansas. - Jim Holt
Jim L. Holt (born January 17, 1965) is a conservative Republican politician from Springdale, the fourth largest city in Arkansas, located in Washington and Benton counties in the GOP stronghold in the northwestern portion of the state. He was born in Camden in Ouachita County in heavily Democratic south Arkansas. He attended the University of Maryland in College Park but dropped out to return to Arkansas to care for his ailing grandmother. - Kenny Guinn
Kenneth Carroll "Kenny" Guinn (born August 24, 1936) is an American educator and businessman who was a two-term Governor of Nevada from 1999 to 2007. Guinn is a member of the Republican party. He was born in Garland, Arkansas and grew up in Exeter, California. He and his wife Dema, whom he married in Reno on July 7, 1956, have two sons, Jeff and Steve. Kenny Guinn earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in physical education from Fresno State College. - Bruce Lindsey
Bruce R. Lindsey currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the William J. Clinton Foundation and splits his time between the Foundation's New York and Little Rock offices. He has been a long-time advisor to former President Bill Clinton. During the eight years of the Clinton Administration, he served as an Assistant to the President, Deputy White House Counsel, and Senior Advisor. During 1993, Mr. - Hattie Caraway
Hattie Ophelia Wyatt Caraway was the first woman elected to serve as a United States Senator. Hattie Wyatt was born near Bakerville, Tennessee, in Humphreys County. She married Thaddeus H. Caraway and moved with him to Jonesboro, Arkansas where she cared for their children and home and her husband practiced law and started a political career. - Bill Halter
William A. "Bill" Halter (born 1960), a Democrat, was sworn in as lieutenant governor of Arkansas in Little Rock, his hometown, on January 9, 2007. He succeeded the late Republican Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, who served in the position for the preceding decade. In 1993, Halter began service in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), part of the Executive Office of the President. In his six years with President Clinton's OMB, … - Powell Clayton
Powell Clayton (7 August 1833 - 23 August 1914) was the first carpetbag Governor of the State of Arkansas and Ambassador to Mexico during the administrations of William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. Clayton was born in Bethel, Pennsylvania to John and Ann Glover Clayton. His father was an orchard keeper and carpenter and parents had ten children in all, although six died in infancy. He attended a private military academy in Bristol, … - Archibald Yell
Archibald Yell (August 9, 1797 -February 23, 1847) was a member of the United States House of Representatives, Governor of the State of Arkansas, and a Brigadier General in the United States Army serving in the Mexican-American War. - Susan Webber Wright
Susan Webber Wright (b. 1948) is a United States District Court judge presently serving as the chief judge of the Eastern District of Arkansas. She received national attention when she dismissed Paula Jones's sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton in 1998. Wright was a student of Clinton's in a class on admiralty law while at the University of Arkansas law school; she later challenged him on her grade. - Sid McMath
Sidney Sanders McMath (June 14, 1912 - October 4, 2003) was a decorated U.S. Marine, renowned attorney and progressive Democratic reform Governor of Arkansas (1949-1953) who, in defiance of his state's political establishment, championed rapid rural electrification, massive highway and school construction, the building of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, strict bank and utility regulation, repeal of the poll tax, … - Frank D. White
Frank Durward White was only the second Republican governor of the U.S. state of Arkansas since Reconstruction. He served a single two-year term from 1981 to 1983. He is one of two Republicans in Arkansas to have defeated future U.S. President Bill Clinton in an election. The other is former U.S. Representative John Paul Hammerschmidt of Harrison. - Winston Bryant
Winston Bryant (born October 3, 1938) served as the Democratic secretary of state (1977-1978), lieutenant governor (1981-1989) and attorney general (1991-1999) of the U.S. state of Arkansas. He was born in Malvern, the seat of Hot Spring County. He is married to the former Susan Hughes and has one son, John Bryant. In 1960, Bryant graduated from Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia. - Solon Borland
Solon Borland (September 21, 1811 - January 1, 1864) was a newspaperman, soldier, diplomat, Democratic United States Senator from the State of Arkansas and a Confederate officer during the American Civil War. Borland was born in Suffolk, Virginia. When he was a youth, his family moved to North Carolina, where he attended preparatory schools. He later studied medicine and opened a practice. In 1843, he moved to Little Rock, Arkansas, … - Joe Purcell
Joe Edward Purcell (29 July 1923 - March 1987) was the Democratic governor of the U.S. state of Arkansas for six days in 1979. He was the state's attorney general from 1967-1971 and its lieutenant governor from 1975-1981. Purcell was born in Warren, the seat of Bradley County, in southern Arkansas. He graduated from Little Rock Junior College and served in the United States Army during World War II. - Joseph Taylor Robinson
Joseph Taylor Robinson (August 26, 1872 - July 14, 1937) was a Democratic United States Senator, Senate Majority Leader, member of the United States House of Representatives, Governor of Arkansas, and U.S. Vice Presidential candidate. Born in Lonoke, Arkansas, Robinson attended the University of Arkansas and studied law at the University of Virginia. In 1894 Robinson was elected to the Arkansas Legislature and served one term. - Augustus Hill Garland
Augustus Hill Garland (June 11, 1832 - January 26, 1899) was an Attorney General of the United States, Democratic United States Senator, Confederate States Senator, Confederate States Representative, and Governor of the State of Arkansas. Augustus Hill Garland was born in Covington, Tennessee. His family moved to Hempstead County, Arkansas, in 1833. Garland attended St. Mary's College in Lebanon, Kentucky and graduated from St. Joseph's College in Bardstown, Kentucky, … - James Sevier Conway
James Sevier Conway (9 December 1798 - 3 March 1855) was a Democratic Governor of the State of Arkansas, the first elected governor since it became a state. James Sevier Conway was born in Greene County, Tennessee. Conway was educated by private tutors and attended public schools. In 1820 he moved to Arkansas where he worked as a surveyor. He formed a surveying business with two of his brothers. - Francis Cherry
Francis Adams Cherry (5 September, 1908 - 15 July 1965) was the Democratic Governor of Arkansas for a single two-year term from 1953 - 1955. He was only the second governor in Arkansas history to have been denied a second term -- the first was Tom Jefferson Terral, who was defeated in 1926. After the governorship, Republican U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed Cherry, a staunch anti-communist, to head the Subversive Activities Control Board, … - William Savin Fulton
William Savin Fulton (June 2, 1795 - August 15, 1844) was an American lawyer and politician from Little Rock, Arkansas. He served as Governor of the Arkansas Territory and United States Senator for Arkansas. Fulton was born in Cecil County, Maryland, and graduated from Baltimore College in 1813. He had intended to study law, but with the outbreak of the War of 1812 he enlisted in a company of volunteers at Fort McHenry. After the war, he moved to Gallatin, Tennessee, … - Henry Massey Rector
Henry Massey Rector (1 May 1816 - 12 August 1899) was a Democratic Governor of the State of Arkansas. Henry Massey Rector was born near Louisville, Kentucky. Rector was educated by his mother and attended one year of school at Louisville. He moved to Arkansas in 1835. Rector served as U.S. Marshal after moving to Arkansas. Rector was elected to the Arkansas Senate and served in that body from 1848 to 1850. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1854. - Monroe Schwarzlose
Monroe Alfred Julius Schwarzlose (September 6, 1902 - November 24, 1990) was a turkey farmer in Cleveland County, Arkansas, who polled 31 percent of the vote in the 1980 Democratic primary against the incumbent Governor and future U.S. President William Jefferson Blythe "Bill" Clinton, who was seeking his second two-year term. Political observers at the time believed that Schwarzlose's support represented an intraparty protest to Clinton's policies as governor. - Elias Nelson Conway
Elias Nelson Conway (17 May 1812 - 28 February 1892) was a Democratic Governor of Arkansas. Elias Nelson Conway was brother to James Sevier Conway, the first governor of Arkansas. He and his family moved to Missouri. Conway attended Bonne Femme Academy in Boone County, Missouri. In 1833 Conway moved to Little Rock, Arkansas. He studied surveying and served as the state auditor from 1835 to 1849. In 1844 Conway was offered, but declined, the nomination for Governor in 1844. - James Henderson Berry
James Henderson Berry (15 May 1841 - 30 January 1913) was a Democratic United States Senator and served as Governor of the State of Arkansas. James Henderson Berry was born in Jackson County, Alabama. Berry moved with his family to Arkansas in 1848. Berry attended Berryville Academy for one year. He studied law and in 1866 was admitted to the Arkansas bar. - Benjamin Travis Laney
Benjamin Travis Laney, Jr. (25 November 1896 - 21 January 1977), was a Democratic Governor of Arkansas. Laney was born in Camden, where he attended Ouachita County public schools but never graduated from high school. He was, however, admitted in 1915 to Hendrix College, a liberal arts institution in Conway. His studies were interrupted by World War I. Laney entered the United States Navy in 1918 and served until the end of the war. - Charles Hillman Brough
Charles Hillman Brough (9 July 1876-26 December 1935) was the Democratic governor of the U.S. state of Arkansas from 1917 to 1921. Charles Brough was born in Clinton, Mississippi. In 1894, he graduated from Mississippi College in Clinton. He earned his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University in 1898, and graduated from the law school at the University of Mississippi in 1902. He taught at Mississippi College, Hillman College, and the University of Arkansas. - Maurice Britt
Maurice Lee "Footsie" Britt, Jr. (June 29, 1919 - November 26, 1995), was an American professional football player, World War II hero, businessman, and Republican politician from Arkansas. He played for the Detroit Lions, was awarded the Medal of Honor, and later served from 1967-1971 as Lieutenant Governor of his home state during the administration of Governor Winthrop Rockefeller. - Bob C. Riley
Bob Cowley Riley (September 18, 1924-February 16, 1994) was the Democratic Governor of Arkansas for eleven days in 1975. Like Moshe Dayan of Israel, Riley wore a black eyepatch because of a wartime injury. Riley was born in Little Rock, the son of Columbus Allen Riley and the former Winnie Mae Craig. He attended public schools in Little Rock. He dropped out of high school after Pearl Harbor to enlist in the United States Marine Corps. On July 24, 1944, Riley, based in Guam, … - Tommy F. Robinson
Tommy Franklin Robinson (born March 7, 1942) is a politician from the state of Arkansas. Robinson was born in Little Rock and graduated from University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He served in the United States Navy from 1959 to 1963. Robinson had a career in law enforcement, rising to the position of Pulaski County sheriff. Robinson was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1984 as a Democrat. - James Paul Clarke
James Paul Clarke (August 18, 1854 -- October 1, 1916) was a Democratic United States Senator and Governor of Arkansas. James Paul Clarke was born in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Clarke attended public schools as well as Tutwilder's Academy in Greenbrier, Alabama. He graduated with a law degree at the University of Virginia in 1878. He was admitted to the bar in 1879 and practiced law at Helena, Arkansas. - Carl Edward Bailey
Carl Edward Bailey (8 October 1894-23 October 1948) was the Democratic Governor of Arkansas from 1937 to 1941. - Len E. Blaylock
Len Everette Blaylock, Sr. (born December 8, 1919), is a retired farmer, educator, small businessman, and Republican politician from Perryville, the seat of Perry County, in central Arkansas near Little Rock. He was state welfare commissioner under Governor Winthrop Rockefeller, the GOP gubernatorial nominee (1972), the U.S. marshal for the Eastern District of Arkansas (1975-1978), the appointments secretary for Governor Frank D. White (1981-1983), … - Jerry Thomasson
Jerry Kreth Thomasson (October 17, 1931 - April 29, 2007), was a Democratic member of the Arkansas House of Representatives who led the move to establish university status to the former Henderson State Teacher's College at Arkadelphia. In 1966, Thomasson switched parties to seek the position of attorney general on the Republican ticket headed by reformer Winthrop Rockefeller. Thomasson was defeated in the general election, however, by the Democrat Joe Purcell of Benton, … - Sam Faubus
Sam Faubus, famous as the father of Orval Faubus, was also the founder of the Arkansas Socialist Party. He was born in Madison County. Despite Faubus' belief in the rights of women to vote and the equality of all races, his son, as Governor or Arkansas, went on to become infamous for opposing the integration of Central High School in Little Rock.
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