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3 unusual facts about Ada Mills


Ada Mills

For more than four decades, she spearheaded the campaign to build a replacement bridge on Arkansas Highway 109 over the Arkansas River between Clarksville and the community of Morrison Bluff in Logan County.

In 1972, Mills was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida, in which she joined the unanimous Arkansas members in ratifying the renomination of the Nixon-Agnew ticket.

Arkansas Highway 109

One of the most famous feature on the route is the Morrison Bluff Bridge, also known as the Ada Mills Bridge, over the Arkansas River.


Harlan Holleman

In 1980, Holleman attended the Republican National Convention in Detroit, Michigan, along with delegate Ada Mills of Clarksville, who had been the only delegate in the nation initially committed to former Governor John B. Connally, Jr., of Texas in his bid for the presidential nomination.


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