Political party strength in Arkansas
Encyclopedia
The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state
U.S. state
A U.S. state is any one of the 50 federated states of the United States of America that share sovereignty with the federal government. Because of this shared sovereignty, an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile. Four states use the official title of...

 of Arkansas
Arkansas
Arkansas is a state located in the southern region of the United States. Its name is an Algonquian name of the Quapaw Indians. Arkansas shares borders with six states , and its eastern border is largely defined by the Mississippi River...

:
  • Governor
  • Lieutenant Governor
    Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas
    The Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas presides over the Arkansas Senate with a tie-breaking vote, serves as governor when the governor is out of state, and serves as governor if the governor is impeached, removed from office, dies or is otherwise unable to discharge the office's duties.The position...

  • Secretary of State
    Secretary of State of Arkansas
    The Secretary of State of Arkansas is one of the elected constitutional officers of the U.S. state of Arkansas.The current Secretary of State is Mark Martin.-Organization:The Secretary of State's Office is composed of seven divisions:...

  • Attorney General
    Arkansas Attorney General
    The Arkansas Attorney General is an executive position and constitutional officer within the Arkansas government. The Attorney General is the chief law enforcement/legal officer and lawyer for Arkansas. The position is elected every four years, e.g...

  • State Auditor
    Arkansas State Auditor
    Arkansas State Auditor is an executive position and constitutional officer within the Arkansas government...

  • State Treasurer
    Arkansas State Treasurer
    The Arkansas State Treasurer acts as the head banker for the State of Arkansas, handling deposits, withdrawals, redemptions of state warrants, and investments of state funds. The position was created in 1819 when Arkansas became a territory...

  • State Land Commissioner


The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:
  • State Senate
    Arkansas Senate
    The Arkansas State Senate is the upper branch of the Arkansas General Assembly. The Senate consists of 35 members, each representing a district with about 76,000 people. Service in the state legislature is part-time, and many state senators have full-time jobs during the rest of the year. The...

  • State House of Representatives
    Arkansas House of Representatives
    The Arkansas House of Representatives is the lower house of the Arkansas General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Arkansas. The House is composed of 100 members elected from an equal amount of constituencies across the state. Each district has an average population of 26,734...

  • State delegation to the United States Senate
  • State delegation to the United States House of Representatives


For years in which a United States presidential election
United States presidential election
Elections for President and Vice President of the United States are indirect elections in which voters cast ballots for a slate of electors of the U.S. Electoral College, who in turn directly elect the President and Vice President...

 was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes.

The parties are as follows: (D), (G), (N), (R), and .
Year|Executive offices|General Assembly
Arkansas General Assembly
The Arkansas General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Arkansas. The legislature is a bicameral body composed of the upper house Arkansas Senate with 35 members, and the lower Arkansas House of Representatives with 100 members. All 135 representatives and state senators...

|United States Congress
United States congressional delegations from Arkansas
The followings tables present the congressional delegations from Arkansas to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives.-United States Senate:-Delegates from Arkansas Territory:- Members of the House of Representatives :...

|Electoral College votes
United States presidential election
Elections for President and Vice President of the United States are indirect elections in which voters cast ballots for a slate of electors of the U.S. Electoral College, who in turn directly elect the President and Vice President...

GovernorLieutenant Governor
Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas
The Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas presides over the Arkansas Senate with a tie-breaking vote, serves as governor when the governor is out of state, and serves as governor if the governor is impeached, removed from office, dies or is otherwise unable to discharge the office's duties.The position...

Sec. of State
Secretary of State of Arkansas
The Secretary of State of Arkansas is one of the elected constitutional officers of the U.S. state of Arkansas.The current Secretary of State is Mark Martin.-Organization:The Secretary of State's Office is composed of seven divisions:...

Attorney General
Arkansas Attorney General
The Arkansas Attorney General is an executive position and constitutional officer within the Arkansas government. The Attorney General is the chief law enforcement/legal officer and lawyer for Arkansas. The position is elected every four years, e.g...

Auditor
Arkansas State Auditor
Arkansas State Auditor is an executive position and constitutional officer within the Arkansas government...

Treasurer
Arkansas State Treasurer
The Arkansas State Treasurer acts as the head banker for the State of Arkansas, handling deposits, withdrawals, redemptions of state warrants, and investments of state funds. The position was created in 1819 when Arkansas became a territory...

Land Comm.State Senate
Arkansas Senate
The Arkansas State Senate is the upper branch of the Arkansas General Assembly. The Senate consists of 35 members, each representing a district with about 76,000 people. Service in the state legislature is part-time, and many state senators have full-time jobs during the rest of the year. The...

State House
Arkansas House of Representatives
The Arkansas House of Representatives is the lower house of the Arkansas General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Arkansas. The House is composed of 100 members elected from an equal amount of constituencies across the state. Each district has an average population of 26,734...

U.S. Senator (Class II)U.S. Senator (Class III)U.S. House
1819 Robert Crittenden
Robert Crittenden
Robert Crittenden was Governor of Arkansas Territory and co-founder of Rose Law Firm. Robert Crittenden was born near Versailles, Kentucky....

 (N)
no such office Robert Crittenden James Scull
James Miller
James Miller (general)
James Miller was a member of the United States House of Representatives from New Hampshire, the first Governor of Arkansas Territory, and a Brigadier General in the United States Army during the War of 1812....

 (N)
1820
1821
1822
1823
1824
Robert Crittenden (N)
1825
George Izard (N)
1826
1827
1828
vacant
1829
John Pope
John Pope (politician)
John Pope was a United States Senator from Kentucky, a member of the United States House of Representatives from Kentucky, Secretary of State of Kentucky, and Governor of Arkansas Territory....

 (N)
1830
1831
1832
1833 S. M. Rutherford
1834
1835
William Savin Fulton
William Savin Fulton
William Savin Fulton was an American lawyer and politician from Little Rock, Arkansas. He served as Governor of the Arkansas Territory and United States Senator for Arkansas....

 (N)
1836
James Sevier Conway
James Sevier Conway
James Sevier Conway was a Democratic Governor of the State of Arkansas, the first elected governor of the state....

 (D)
1837
1838
1839
1840
1841 Archibald Yell
Archibald Yell
Archibald Yell was a member of the United States House of Representatives, second Governor of the State of Arkansas, and a Brigadier General in the United States Army serving in the Mexican-American War.-Early life:...

 (D)
1842
1843
1844
Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams (governor)
Samuel Adams was a Democratic Governor of the State of Arkansas.Samuel Adams was born in Halifax County, Virginia. Adams was self-taught and moved to Arkansas in 1835. Adams became a planter and became active in Arkansas politics.In 1840 Adams was elected to the Arkansas Senate...

 (D)
1845 Thomas Stevenson Drew
Thomas Stevenson Drew
Thomas Stevenson Drew was the third governor of the U.S. state of Arkansas. Though Drew was the third to be elected governor, he was the fourth in office because his predecessor, Samuel Adams, had served as acting governor during much of 1844, having gained the office through the previous...

 (D)
1846
1847
1848
1849
Richard C. Byrd
Richard C. Byrd
Richard C. Byrd was a Democratic Governor of the State of Arkansas.Richard C. Byrd was born in 1805 in Hawkins County, Tennessee. Byrd was a merchant and farmer. He moved to Arkansas in 1826....

 (D)
John Selden Roane
John Selden Roane
John Selden Roane was a Confederate Brigadier General during the American Civil War. He also served as the fourth Governor of the State of Arkansas.-Biography:...

 (D)
1850
1851
1852
1853 Elias Nelson Conway
Elias Nelson Conway
Elias Nelson Conway was the fifth 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...

 (D)
1854
1855
1856
1857
1858
1859
1860
1861 Henry Massey Rector
Henry Massey Rector
Henry Massey Rector was the sixth 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...

 (D)
1862
1863 Harris Flanagin
Harris Flanagin
Harris Flanagin was the seventh Governor of the State of Arkansas.-Biography:Harris Flanagin was born in Roadstown, New Jersey. Flanagin was educated in Quaker schools in New Jersey. At age 18 he became a professor of mathematics. Flanagin moved west and opened his own private school in Paoli,...

 (D)
1864
Isaac Murphy
Isaac Murphy
For the African-American Hall of Fame jockey see: Isaac Burns MurphyIsaac Murphy was the first Reconstruction Governor of Arkansas. He was the first reconstruction governor to come to power under President Abraham Lincoln's conciliatory policy...

 (R)
Calvin C. Bliss
Calvin C. Bliss
Calvin Comins Bliss was the first Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas, serving from 1864 to 1868.-References:...

 (R)
1865
1866
1867
1868 James M. Johnson
James M. Johnson (Arkansas)
James M. Johnson Was an Arkansas politician, and a soldier for the Union Army in the First Arkansas Infantry during the American Civil War. After the war he was elected Lieutenant Governor in 1868, with Powell Clayton as Governor. When the Republican Party of Arkansas split in 1971, Johnson sided...

 (R)
Powell Clayton
Powell Clayton
Powell Clayton was an engineer, a Union Army general in the American Civil War, the first Reconstruction Governor of the State of Arkansas, and Ambassador to Mexico during the administrations of William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.-Early life:Clayton was born in Bethel, Pennsylvania, to John...

 (R)
1869
1870
1871
Ozra Amander Hadley
Ozra Amander Hadley
Ozra Amander Hadley was the Governor of the State of Arkansas. He was born in Cherry Creek, New York and was educated in the public schools of New York. He attended Fredonia Academy . He moved to Minnesota in 1855 becoming a farmer, before entering politics being appointed county auditor...

 (R)
vacant James M. Johnson (R)
1872
1873 Elisha Baxter
Elisha Baxter
Elisha Baxter was the tenth Governor of the State of Arkansas.-Biography:Elisha Baxter was born in Rutherford County, North Carolina. Baxter received an appointment to the United States Military Academy but his father would not allow him to attend.In 1852 Baxter moved to Arkansas and opened a...

 (R)
Volney V. Smith
Volney V. Smith
Volney Voke Smith was an American politician who served as the third Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas from 1873 to 1874. He was the born 1841 to Delazon Smith and Eliza Voke Smith, and was also a second cousin of politician Edward J. Voke....

 (R)
1874
Augustus Hill Garland
Augustus Hill Garland
Augustus Hill Garland was an Arkansas lawyer and politician. He was a senator in both the United States and the Confederate States, served as 11th Governor of Arkansas and as Attorney General of the United States in the first administration of Grover Cleveland.-Early life and law career:Garland...

 (D)
no such office
1875
1876
1877 William Read Miller
William Read Miller
William Read Miller was the 12th Governor of the State of Arkansas.William Read Miller was born in Batesville, Arkansas. Miller was the first native born Arkansas governor. Miller studied law and was admitted to the Arkansas bar in 1848.Miller was elected county clerk of Independence County,...

 (D)
1878
1879
1880
1881 Thomas James Churchill
Thomas James Churchill
Thomas James Churchill was a Confederate major general during the American Civil War and the 13th Governor of the state of Arkansas.-Early life:...

 (D)
1882
1883 James Henderson Berry
James Henderson Berry
James Henderson Berry was a United States Senator and served as the 14th Governor of the State of Arkansas....

 (D)
1884
1885 Simon Pollard Hughes, Jr.
Simon Pollard Hughes, Jr.
Simon Pollard Hughes, Jr. was the 15th Governor of the State of Arkansas and an officer in the American Civil War.-Early life:...

 (D)
1886
1887
1888
1889 James Philip Eagle
James Philip Eagle
James Philip Eagle was the 16th Governor of the State of Arkansas.James Philip Eagle was born in Maury County, Tennessee. His family moved to Arkansas early in his life and he was educated in the public schools....

 (D)
1890
1891
1892
1893 William Meade Fishback
William Meade Fishback
William Meade Fishback was the 17th Governor of Arkansas and selected to be a member of the United States Senate but was not allowed to serve....

 (D)
1894
1895 James Paul Clarke
James Paul Clarke
James Paul Clarke was a United States Senator and the 18th 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...

 (D)
1896
1897 Daniel Webster Jones
Daniel Webster Jones (governor)
Daniel Webster Jones was the 19th Governor of the U.S. state of Arkansas.-Biography:Daniel Webster Jones was born in Bowie County, Texas. His family moved to Washington, Arkansas in 1840. Jones attended Washington Academy there and later studied law...

 (D)
1898
1899
1900
1901 Jeff Davis (D)
1902
1903
1904
1905
1906
1907 John Sebastian Little
John Sebastian Little
John Sebastian Little was a member of the United States House of Representatives and the 21st Governor of the U.S. state of Arkansas....

 (D)
John Isaac Moore
John Isaac Moore
John Isaac "Ike" Moore was the Acting Governor of the U.S. state of Arkansas.Moore was born in Lafayette County, Mississippi. Moore graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1881. He studied law and was admitted to the Arkansas bar in 1882. From 1894 to 1900, Moore served as probate judge in...

 (D)
Xenophon Overton Pindall
Xenophon Overton Pindall
Xenophon Overton Pindall was the Acting Governor of the U.S. state of Arkansas.Xenophon Overton Pindall was born at Middle Grove in Monroe County, Missouri. He attended Central College in Missouri and earned his law degree from the University of Arkansas in 1896...

 (D)
1908
1909 Jesse M. Martin
Jesse M. Martin
Jesse M. Martin was the Acting Governor of the U.S. state of Arkansas.Jesse M. Martin served as Governor of Arkansas from January 11, 1909 to January 14, 1909 after the expiration of the state senate term of Xenophon Overton Pindall, who was acting governor during the unexpired term of John...

 (D)
George Washington Donaghey
George Washington Donaghey
George Washington Donaghey was the 22nd Governor of the U.S. state of Arkansas from 1909 to 1913.George W. Donaghey was born in Oakland, Union Parish, Louisiana. From 1882 to 1883, Donaghey attended the University of Arkansas. He was a school teacher, carpenter, and studied both architecture and...

 (D)
1910
1911
1912
1913 Joseph Taylor Robinson
Joseph Taylor Robinson
Joseph Taylor Robinson was an American politician from Arkansas, of the Democratic Party. He was a state representative, U.S. Representative, 23rd Governor of Arkansas, U.S...

 (D)
vacant
William Kavanaugh Oldham
William Kavanaugh Oldham
William Kavanaugh Oldham was the Acting Governor of the U.S. state of Arkansas for six days in 1913.Oldham was born in Richmond, Kentucky and educated at Central University, also in Richmond. He moved to Pettus, Arkansas in Lonoke County in 1885.He was elected to the Arkansas House of...

 (D)
Junius Marion Futrell
Junius Marion Futrell
Junius Marion Futrell was the 30th Governor of Arkansas from 1933 to 1937, and the Acting Governor for a short stint in 1913....

 (D)
George Washington Hays
George Washington Hays
George Washington Hays was the 24th Governor of the U.S. state of Arkansas.George Washington Hays was born in Camden, Arkansas. He attended public schools in Camden and worked as a farmer. Hays studied law at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.Hays was probate and county judge...

 (D)
1914
1915
1916
1917 Charles Hillman Brough
Charles Hillman Brough
Charles Hillman Brough was the 25th 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...

 (D)
1918
1919
1920
1921 Thomas Chipman McRae
Thomas Chipman McRae
Thomas Chipman McRae was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives and was the 26th Governor of Arkansas from 1921 to 1925.-Biography:...

 (D)
1922
1923
1924
1925 Tom Jefferson Terral
Tom Jefferson Terral
Thomas Jefferson Terral was the 27th Governor of Arkansas from 1925 to 1927.Thomas Jefferson Terral was born in Union Parish, Louisiana. The attended the University of Kentucky and in 1910 graduated from the University of Arkansas law school...

 (D)
1926
1927 John Ellis Martineau
John Ellis Martineau
John Ellis Martineau was the 28th Governor of Arkansas, U.S., from 1927 to 1928.John Ellis Martineau was born in Clay County, Missouri. He graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1896 and obtained his law degree there in 1899...

 (D)
Harvey Parnell
Harvey Parnell
Harvey Parnell was the 29th Governor of Arkansas from 1928 to 1933.Harvey Parnell was born in Orlando in Cleveland County, Arkansas. Parnell attended public schools and graduated from Warren High School in Warren, Arkansas...

 (D)
1928
Harvey Parnell (D) William Lee Cazort
William Lee Cazort
William Lee Cazort was the second Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas.-External links:* at Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture...

 (D)
1929
1930
1931 Lawrence Elery Wilson
Lawrence Elery Wilson
Lawrence Elery Wilson was the third Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas, serving as Governor Harvey Parnell's second lieutenant governor....

 (D)
1932
1933 Junius Marion Futrell (D) William Lee Cazort (D)
1934
1935 Earl Page (D)
1936
1937 Carl Edward Bailey
Carl Edward Bailey
Carl Edward Bailey was the 31st Governor of Arkansas from 1937 to 1941.-Early life and career:Carl Edward Bailey was born in Bernie, Missouri. He attended Missouri public schools and graduated from high school in Campbell, Missouri in 1912. Bailey wished to attend the University of Missouri but...

 (D)
Robert L. Bailey
Robert L. Bailey
Robert L. Bailey was the fourth Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas, serving as Governor Carl Edward Bailey's lieutenant governor, as well as Governor Homer Martin Adkins' first lieutenant governor....

 (D)
Chip Hall
Chip Hall
Chip Hall is an American television producer and writer, best known for his work on the Fox animated sitcom King of the Hill, on which he worked as a writer and producer for six years. He is currently a writer and producer on the Spike TV comedy, Blue Mountain State...

 (D)
Jack Holt
Jack Holt
Jack Holt may refer to:*Jack Holt *Jack Holt *Jack Holt , Australian horse racing trainer*Jack Holt, character in Outcasts...

 (D)
Oscar Humphrey (D) Otis Page (D)
1938
1939
1940
1941 Homer Martin Adkins
Homer Martin Adkins
Homer Martin Adkins was the 32nd Governor of Arkansas. He was born near Jacksonville in Pulaski County, Arkansas. In 1908, he attended Draughon's Business College and graduated from the Little Rock College of Pharmacy in 1911 as a licensed pharmacist.Adkins served in the United States Army during...

 (D)
1942
1943 James L. Shaver
James L. Shaver
James Lavesque Shaver was the fifth Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas, serving as the second lieutenant governor of Governor Homer Martin Adkins, and the first lieutenant governor of Governor Benjamin Travis Laney....

 (D)
Guy E. Williams (D) Bish Bentley (D)
1944 Claude Rankin (D)
1945 Benjamin Travis Laney
Benjamin Travis Laney
Benjamin Travis Laney, Jr. , was the 33rd Governor of Arkansas, having served from 1945-1949.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...

 (D)
Vance Clayton (D)
1946
1947 Nathan Green Gordon
Nathan Green Gordon
Nathan Green Gordon was an American lawyer, politician, and decorated naval aviator. A Democrat, he served as the sixth Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas for ten terms, from 1947 to 1967. As a United States Navy officer in World War II, he received the U.S...

 (D)
1948
1949 Sid McMath
Sid McMath
Sidney Sanders McMath was a decorated U.S. Marine, attorney and the 34th Governor of Arkansas 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,...

 (D)
Ike Murray (D)
1950
1951
1952
1953 Francis Cherry
Francis Cherry
Francis Adams Cherry was the 35th Governor of Arkansas, elected as a Democrat for a single two-year term from 1953 to 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...

 (D)
Tom Gentry (D)
1954
1955 Orval Faubus
Orval Faubus
Orval Eugene Faubus was the 36th Governor of Arkansas, serving from 1955 to 1967. He is best known for his 1957 stand against the desegregation of Little Rock public schools during the Little Rock Crisis, in which he defied a unanimous decision of the United States Supreme Court by ordering the...

 (D)
James Herbert Jones
James Herbert Jones
James Herbert "Jimmie Red" Jones was the Arkansas State Auditor from 1956 to 1980 the Adjutant General of the Arkansas National Guard from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1984.-Early life:...

 (D)
1956 Nolan Humphrey (D)
1957 Bruce Bennett
Bruce Bennett
Bruce Bennett was an American actor and Olympic silver medalist shot putter. During the 1930s, he went by his real name, Herman Brix .-Early life and Olympics:...

 (D)
James Herbert Jones
James Herbert Jones
James Herbert "Jimmie Red" Jones was the Arkansas State Auditor from 1956 to 1980 the Adjutant General of the Arkansas National Guard from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1984.-Early life:...

 (D)
Sam Jones
Sam Jones
-Music & Entertainment:* Samuel Jones , U.S. bassist, cellist, and composer* Samuel Jones , U.S. composer, conductor* Sam Jones , character in Doctor Who spin-off novels* Sam J...

 (D)
1958
1959
1960
1961 Nancy J. Hall (D) J. Frank Holt (D) Lee Clayton
Lee Clayton
Lee Clayton is a country musician and composer.-Biography:His style has been described as in between rock and country. Clayton grew up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and began to play harmonica and guitar at the age of 7...

 (D)
1962 Jack Holt, Jr. (D)
1963 Kelly Bryant
Kelly Bryant
Kelly Bryant served as the Democratic secretary of state of the U.S. state of Arkansas from 1963 until his death nearly thirteen years later. He was one of three statewide politicians born in Hope, the seat of Hempstead County, in southern Arkansas. The others are former Governor and U.S...

 (D)
Bruce Bennett (D) Nancy J. Hall (D)
1964
1965
1966
1967 Winthrop Rockefeller
Winthrop Rockefeller
Winthrop Rockefeller was a politician and philanthropist who served as the first Republican Governor of Arkansas since Reconstruction. He was a third-generation member of the Rockefeller family.-Early life:...

 (R)
Maurice Britt
Maurice Britt
Maurice Lee "Footsie" Britt, Jr. , was an American professional football player, World War II hero received the Medal of Honor, businessman, and Republican politician from Arkansas...

 (R)
Joe Purcell
Joe Purcell
Joseph Gregory Purcell -References:...

 (D)
35D 97D, 3R
1968
1969 34D, 1R
1970
1971 Dale Bumpers
Dale Bumpers
Dale Leon Bumpers is an American politician who served as the 38th Governor of Arkansas from 1971 to 1975; and then in the United States Senate from 1975 until his retirement in January 1999. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Senator Bumpers is currently counsel at the Washington, D.C...

 (D)
Bob C. Riley
Bob C. Riley
Bob Cowley Riley was an American educator and politician who served as Acting Governor of Arkansas for 11 days in 1975. He had previously been a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1946 to 1950, the mayor of Arkadelphia, Arkansas, in 1966 and 1967, and the eighth Lieutenant...

 (D)
Ray Thornton
Ray Thornton
Raymond Hoyt "Ray" Thornton, Jr. is a former U.S. Representative from the US state of Arkansas.Thornton earned a degree in political science from Yale University and, later, a law degree from the University of Arkansas...

 (D)
99D, 1R
1972 Richard M. Nixon and Spiro Agnew
Spiro Agnew
Spiro Theodore Agnew was the 39th Vice President of the United States , serving under President Richard Nixon, and the 55th Governor of Maryland...

 (R)
1973 Jim Guy Tucker
Jim Guy Tucker
James "Jim" Guy Tucker, Jr. is an Arkansas political figure. He served as the 43rd Governor of Arkansas, the 11th Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas, Arkansas Attorney General, and U.S. Representative...

 (D)
1974
1975 Bob C. Riley (D) vacant Dale Bumpers (D)
David Pryor
David Pryor
David Hampton Pryor is a former Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives and United States Senator from the State of Arkansas. Pryor also served as 39th Governor of Arkansas from 1975 to 1979 and was a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1960 to 1966...

 (D)
Joe Purcell (D) George Jernigan (D)
1976 Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...

 and Walter Mondale
Walter Mondale
Walter Frederick "Fritz" Mondale is an American Democratic Party politician, who served as the 42nd Vice President of the United States , under President Jimmy Carter, and as a United States Senator for Minnesota...

 (D)
1977 Winston Bryant
Winston Bryant
Winston Bryant is a former Democratic Secretary of State , the tenth Lieutenant Governor and attorney general of the U.S. state of Arkansas.He was born in Malvern, the seat of Hot Spring County...

 (D)
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

 (D)
1978
1979 Joe Purcell (D) vacant Paul Riviere (D) Steve Clark (D) David Pryor (D)
Bill Clinton (D) Joe Purcell (D) Jimmie Lou Fisher
Jimmie Lou Fisher
Jimmie Lou Fisher , grew up in Paragould, Arkansas. She attended school at Delaplaine School in Delaplaine, Arkansas. She, at a very early age, became interested in politics, and aspired to be successful...

 (D)
1980 Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....

 and George H. W. Bush
George H. W. Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States . He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to...

 (R)
1981 Frank D. White
Frank D. White
Frank Durward White was the 41st 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 only two people to have defeated President Bill Clinton in an election. Frank Durward White (June 4, 1933 – May 21, 2003) was...

 (R)
Winston Bryant (D) Julia Hughes Jones (D) Jimmie Lou Fisher
Jimmie Lou Fisher
Jimmie Lou Fisher , grew up in Paragould, Arkansas. She attended school at Delaplaine School in Delaplaine, Arkansas. She, at a very early age, became interested in politics, and aspired to be successful...

 (D)
Bill McCuen (D)
1982
1983 Bill Clinton (D)
1984
1985 Bill McCuen (D) Charlie Daniels
Charlie Daniels (politician)
Charlie Daniels is an American Democratic Party politician from Arkansas. He is currently Auditor for the state of Arkansas and previously served as Arkansas’s Secretary of State and Commissioner of State Lands.-Early Life and Career:...

 (D)
1986
1987
1988 George H. W. Bush and Dan Quayle
Dan Quayle
James Danforth "Dan" Quayle served as the 44th Vice President of the United States, serving with President George H. W. Bush . He served as a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from the state of Indiana....

 (R)
1989
1990
Ron Shields (D)
1991 Jim Guy Tucker
Jim Guy Tucker
James "Jim" Guy Tucker, Jr. is an Arkansas political figure. He served as the 43rd Governor of Arkansas, the 11th Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas, Arkansas Attorney General, and U.S. Representative...

 (D)
Mary Stallcup (D)
Winston Bryant (D)
1992 Jim Guy Tucker (D) Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
Michael "Mike" Dale Huckabee is an American politician who served as the 44th Governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007. He was a candidate in the 2008 United States Republican presidential primaries, finishing second in delegate count and third in both popular vote and number of states won . He won...

 (R)
Bill Clinton and Al Gore
Al Gore
Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. served as the 45th Vice President of the United States , under President Bill Clinton. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for President in the 2000 U.S. presidential election....

 (D)
1993 Gus Wingfield
Gus Wingfield
Gus Wingfield is a former one term Arkansas State Treasurer, and two term Arkansas State Auditor, 1994-2003. He served from 2003-2007.- Early life :...

 (D)
2D, 2R
1994
1995 Sharon Priest (D)
1996
Mike Huckabee (R) Winthrop Paul Rockefeller
Winthrop Paul Rockefeller
Winthrop Paul Rockefeller was a Republican politician who served as the 13th Lieutenant Governor of the U.S. state of Arkansas from 1996 until his death.-Early life and parents:...

 (R)
1997 Tim Hutchinson
Tim Hutchinson
Young Timothy Hutchinson, known as Tim Hutchinson is a Republican politician and former senator from the state of Arkansas.Hutchinson was born in Bentonville, Arkansas, and he graduated from Bob Jones University...

 (R)
1998
1999 Mark Pryor
Mark Pryor
Mark Lunsford Pryor is the senior United States Senator from Arkansas, serving since 2003. He is a member of the Democratic Party and former Attorney General of Arkansas....

 (D)
Blanche Lincoln
Blanche Lincoln
Blanche Meyers Lambert Lincoln is a former U.S. Senator from Arkansas and a member of the Democratic Party. First elected to the Senate in 1998, she was the first woman elected to the Senate from Arkansas since Hattie Caraway in 1932 and, at age 38, was the youngest woman ever elected to the...

 (D)
2000 George W. Bush
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....

 and Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney
Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney served as the 46th Vice President of the United States , under George W. Bush....

 (R)
2001 3D, 1R
2002
2003 Charlie Daniels
Charlie Daniels (politician)
Charlie Daniels is an American Democratic Party politician from Arkansas. He is currently Auditor for the state of Arkansas and previously served as Arkansas’s Secretary of State and Commissioner of State Lands.-Early Life and Career:...

 (D)
Mike Beebe (D) Jim Wood
Jim Wood (Arkansas)
Jim Wood is the former State Auditor of Arkansas, and is a former State Legislator. He served from 2003 to 2011.- Biography :Jim Wood was born in Newport, Arkansas , and attended elementary school in Tupelo, Arkansas...

 (D)
Gus Wingfield (D) Mark Wilcox
Mark Wilcox
Mark Wilcox is the former Commissioner of State Lands of Arkansas. A Democrat, he was first elected in November 2002, taking office in January 2003, and was reelected in November 2006 to a second term....

 (D)
Mark Pryor (D)
2004
2005
2006
2007 Mike Beebe (D) Bill Halter
Bill Halter
William A. "Bill" Halter was the 14th Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas. A member of the Democratic Party, he was elected to succeed the late Republican Winthrop Paul Rockefeller in 2006, defeating Republican challenger Jim Holt by a margin of 57%–43%.Before his election as lieutenant governor,...

 (D)
Dustin McDaniel
Dustin McDaniel
Dustin McDaniel is the current Attorney General of Arkansas. A member of the Democratic Party, he assumed office on January 9, 2007, succeeding Mike Beebe, who became Governor of Arkansas.- Background :...

 (D)
Martha Shoffner
Martha Shoffner
Martha Shoffner is the current state treasurer of Arkansas. A Democrat, she was first elected in 2006, taking office in January 2007. She was re-elected in 2010....

 (D)
2008 27D, 8R 75D, 25R John McCain
John McCain
John Sidney McCain III is the senior United States Senator from Arizona. He was the Republican nominee for president in the 2008 United States election....

 and Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
Sarah Louise Palin is an American politician, commentator and author. As the Republican Party nominee for Vice President in the 2008 presidential election, she was the first Alaskan on the national ticket of a major party and first Republican woman nominated for the vice-presidency.She was...

 (R)
2009 72D, 28R
2010
2011 Mark Darr
Mark Darr
Mark A. Darr is the 15th Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas. A member of the Republican Party, he was elected to succeed Democrat Bill Halter in 2010, defeating Democratic challenger State Senator and former Speaker of the House Shane Broadway by a margin of 51% - 49%. -Early life and career:Mark...

 (R)
Mark Martin (R) Charlie Daniels
Charlie Daniels (politician)
Charlie Daniels is an American Democratic Party politician from Arkansas. He is currently Auditor for the state of Arkansas and previously served as Arkansas’s Secretary of State and Commissioner of State Lands.-Early Life and Career:...

 (D)
John Thurston (R) 20D, 15R 54D, 45R, 1VC John Boozman
John Boozman
John Nichols Boozman is the junior U.S. Senator for Arkansas . A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the U.S. Representative for .Born in Shreveport, Louisiana, he was the brother of state Senator Fay Boozman...

 (R)
3R, 1D
YearGovernorLieutenant Governor
Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas
The Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas presides over the Arkansas Senate with a tie-breaking vote, serves as governor when the governor is out of state, and serves as governor if the governor is impeached, removed from office, dies or is otherwise unable to discharge the office's duties.The position...

Sec. of State
Secretary of State of Arkansas
The Secretary of State of Arkansas is one of the elected constitutional officers of the U.S. state of Arkansas.The current Secretary of State is Mark Martin.-Organization:The Secretary of State's Office is composed of seven divisions:...

Attorney General
Arkansas Attorney General
The Arkansas Attorney General is an executive position and constitutional officer within the Arkansas government. The Attorney General is the chief law enforcement/legal officer and lawyer for Arkansas. The position is elected every four years, e.g...

Auditor
Arkansas State Auditor
Arkansas State Auditor is an executive position and constitutional officer within the Arkansas government...

Treasurer
Arkansas State Treasurer
The Arkansas State Treasurer acts as the head banker for the State of Arkansas, handling deposits, withdrawals, redemptions of state warrants, and investments of state funds. The position was created in 1819 when Arkansas became a territory...

Land Comm.State Senate
Arkansas Senate
The Arkansas State Senate is the upper branch of the Arkansas General Assembly. The Senate consists of 35 members, each representing a district with about 76,000 people. Service in the state legislature is part-time, and many state senators have full-time jobs during the rest of the year. The...

State House
Arkansas House of Representatives
The Arkansas House of Representatives is the lower house of the Arkansas General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Arkansas. The House is composed of 100 members elected from an equal amount of constituencies across the state. Each district has an average population of 26,734...

U.S. Senator (Class II)U.S. Senator (Class III)U.S. House|Electoral College votes
United States presidential election
Elections for President and Vice President of the United States are indirect elections in which voters cast ballots for a slate of electors of the U.S. Electoral College, who in turn directly elect the President and Vice President...

Executive offices|General Assembly
Arkansas General Assembly
The Arkansas General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Arkansas. The legislature is a bicameral body composed of the upper house Arkansas Senate with 35 members, and the lower Arkansas House of Representatives with 100 members. All 135 representatives and state senators...

|United States Congress
United States congressional delegations from Arkansas
The followings tables present the congressional delegations from Arkansas to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives.-United States Senate:-Delegates from Arkansas Territory:- Members of the House of Representatives :...

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