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Governor, 1844-1849. Resigned as
governor, 1849, and returned to Pocahontas. Moved to Hood County,
Texas, after death of his wife in 1872. Died in Texas, 1879.
4. John S. Roane, 1849-1852
Planter, lawyer, Democrat. Born in Tennessee, 1817. Attended
Cumberland College, Princeton, Kentucky. Came to Arkansas 1837,
settled at Pine Bluff. Moved to Van Buren 1842. Speaker, Arkansas
House of Representatives, 1844-1845.
Served in Mexican War. Returned to Pine Bluff, 1848. Governor,
1849-1852. Married Mary K. Smith, 1855; five children. Brigadier
general, Confederate Army. Died 1867.
5. Elias N. Conway, 1852-1860
Surveyor, public official, Democrat. Born in Tennessee, 1812; younger
brother of Governor James S. Conway. Came to Arkansas from
Missouri 1833. Territorial auditor, 1835-1836. State auditor, 1836-1849.
Governor, 1852-1860. Never married. Died 1892.
6. Henry M. Rector, 1860-1862
Planter, lawyer, Independent Democrat. Born in Kentucky, 1816. Came
to Arkansas from Missouri, 1835; settled in Hot Springs. Married
Ernestine Flora Linde, 1860; one child.
Appointed federal marshal, 1842. State senator, 1848-1852. Moved to

Little Rock, 1854. Member, House of Representatives, 1854-1855.
Associate justice, Supreme Court, 1859-1860. Governor, 1860-1862.
Delegate, constitutional convention of 1874. Died 1899.
7. Harris Flanagin, 1862-1865
Lawyer, Confederate. Born in New Jersey, 1817. Moved to Clark
County, Arkansas, from Illinois, 1837. Married Martha E. Nash, 1851;
five children.
Member, House of Representatives, 1842-1843. Delegate, secession
convention, 1861. Colonel, Confederate Army. Governor, 1862-1865.
Delegate, constitutional convention of 1874. Died 1874.
8. Isaac Murphy, 1864-1868
Teacher, lawyer, Unionist Democrat. Born in Pennsylvania, 1799.
Settled in Tennessee, 1830; came to Arkansas 1834. Married Angelina
A. Lockhart, 1830; eight children.
Member, House of Representatives, Washington County, 1848-1849.
Went to California 1849, returned 1853. Moved to Huntsville, Madison
County, 1854. State senator, 1856-1857.
Delegate, secession convention of 1861; only member who refused to
vote for secession of Arkansas from the Union. Served with Union
Army, 1861-1863. Organized Unionist state government in Little Rock,
1864; served as governor until displaced by Radical Republicans, 1868.
Died in Huntsville, 1882.
9. Powell Clayton, 1868-1871
Civil engineer, soldier, Republican. Born in Pennsylvania, 1833.
Educated in the common schools, the Partridge Military Academy in
Bristol, Pennsylvania, and in an engineering school at Wilmington,
Delaware. Moved to Kansas, 1855; became city engineer of
Leavenworth, Kansas, 1859.

Brigadier general, Union Army; came to Arkansas with army during
Civil War. At close of war, settled on a cotton plantation near Pine
Bluff. Married Adeline McGraw, 1865; five children.
Governor, 1868-1871; resigned in 1871 to become United States
senator for term ending 1877. Moved from Little Rock to Eureka
Springs, 1882. United States ambassador to Mexico, 1897-1905. Lived
in Washington, D.C. from 1912 until his death in 1915.
Note: The unexpired portion of Powell Clayton's term as governor,
1871-1873, was completed by Ozra A. Hadley, president of the State
Senate.
10. Elisha Baxter, 1873-1874
Lawyer, Republican. Born in North Carolina, 1827. Married Harriet
Patton, 1849; six children. Came to Arkansas 1852, settled in Batesville.
Member, House of Representatives, 1854-1855, 1858-1859.
Prosecuting attorney, 1861-1862.
Raised and commanded Fourth Arkansas Mounted Infantry Regiment
(Union) during Civil War. Elected to State Supreme Court, 1864, and
then to United States Senate, but not allowed to take his seat. Circuit
judge, 1868-1873. Governor, 1873-1874; his term of office was cut
short by the Brooks-Baxter War and the adoption of a new state
constitution. Died 1899.
11. Augustus H. Garland, 1874-1877
Lawyer, Democrat. Born in Tennessee, 1832. His parents came to what
is now Miller County, Arkansas, 1833; later the family located in
Washington, Hempstead County. Educated in a private school at
Washington; at St. Mary's College, Lebanon, Kentucky; and at St.
Joseph's College, Bardstown, Kentucky, where he graduated 1849.
Married Virginia Saunders, 1853; eight children. Moved to Little Rock,
1856.
Delegate, secession convention, 1861. Delegate to Provisional

Congress of Confederate States, 1861; Confederate congressman,
1861-1864; Confederate States senator, 1864-1865. Governor,
1874-1877. United States senator, 1877-1885. Attorney General of the
United States under President Grover Cleveland, 1885-1889; first
Arkansan to hold a cabinet post. Died 1899.
12. William R. Miller, 1877-1881
Lawyer, Democrat. Born at Batesville, Arkansas, 1823. Clerk of
Independence County, 1848-1854. Married Susan Elizabeth Bevens,
1849; seven children.
State auditor, 1854-1855, 1857-1860, 1861-1864, 1866-1868,
1874-1877, 1887. Accountant of Real Estate Bank of Arkansas,
1855-1856. Governor, 1877-1881; first native Arkansan to hold office.
Died 1887.
13. Thomas J. Churchill, 1881-1883
Planter, soldier, lawyer, Democrat. Born in Kentucky, 1824. Educated
at St. Mary's College and Transylvania University. Served in Mexican
War. Moved to Arkansas 1848, acquired a plantation near Little Rock.
Married Anne Maria Sevier, 1849; six children.
Postmaster at Little Rock, 1857-1861. Major general, Confederate
Army; commanded at the Battle of Arkansas Post, 1863. State treasurer,
1874-1881. Governor, 1881-1883. Died 1905.
14. James H. Berry, 1883-1885
Lawyer, Democrat. Born in Alabama, 1841. When he was seven, his
father moved to Carrollton, Carroll County, Arkansas. Attended
Berryville Academy. Served in