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

James Miller 1819-1825
George Izard 1825-1828
Robert Crittenden (acting) 1828-1829
John Pope (Democrat) 1829-1835
William Savin Fulton (Democrat) 1835-1836

[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	current
55	Mike Beebe Governor-elect	Democratic