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unusual facts about Governor of Arkansas



Jimmy Lile

In addition to creating the Rambo knives, Lile designed and made several Bowie knives that he presented to Governor Bill Clinton and U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, and Gerald R. Ford, Jr. Other owners of his work included John Wayne, Peter Fonda, Fess Parker, Bo Derek, and Johnny Cash.

Maud Crawford

Former Arkansas Attorney General Jim Guy Tucker (later a U.S. Representative and then governor), considered the deeds "powerful evidence" that Mike Berg sought to defraud his aunt.

Natural Steps, Arkansas

The Natural Steps were first written about and drawn by David Dale Owen (Principal Geologist) in his Second Report of a Geological Reconnaissance of the Middle and Southern Counties of Arkansas (1859) ordered by Elias Nelson Conway, Governor of Arkansas.

Nelson Hackett

Wallace, however, refused to let the matter drop, and he was well connected, particularly to the Governor of Arkansas, Archibald Yell.

Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America

The Governor of Arkansas, Charles Hillman Brough, led a detachment of federal troops into Phillips County, arresting hundreds of blacks and allowing other blacks to move about in public only if they had a pass signed by military authorities and attested by a reputable white citizen.

Richard Cleveland Drew

Drew's uncle, Thomas Stevenson Drew, the governor of Arkansas from 1844 to 1849, had also been a delegate to that state's 1836 constitutional convention.

Rockline

Notable non-musical guests include then Governor of Arkansas Bill Clinton with running mate, then-United States Senator from Tennessee Al Gore during their presidential campaign in 1992; and on December 16, 1993 radio superstar Howard Stern, the latter of whom was promoting his New Year's Eve Pay-per-view special.

Sam Seamans

In August of 2012 Seamans was appointed to the Arkansas Judicial Discipline and Disability Commission by Governor Mike Beebe.

Theophilus H. Holmes

He planned a coordinated attack in conjunction with Sterling Price, John S. Marmaduke, James Fleming Fagan, and, Governor of Arkansas, Harris Flanagin.

Vaccine Research Center

The VRC is named after former Governor of Arkansas, Dale Bumpers, and his wife Betty Flanagan Bumpers, who are known for their campaigning for immunization of children.


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206th Field Artillery Regiment

In 1946, when he was elected Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas under Governor Benjamin Travis Laney.

Carl Bailey

:For the Democratic Governor of Arkansas, see Carl Edward Bailey.

Melba Pattillo Beals

The Nine also faced mobs that forced President Dwight D. Eisenhower to send in the 101st Airborne Division to protect their lives after the governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, used troops to block the Nine's entry to the school.

Robert Riley

Bob C. Riley (1924–1994), acting Governor of Arkansas for 11 days in 1975

Timex Ironman

U.S. President Bill Clinton owned and wore several early models (including the original) of the watch during his time as Governor of Arkansas and in the early years of his Presidency.

Wallace Terry

As a reporter for The Brown Daily Herald, he posed as a waiter to get an interview with Orval Faubus, the outspoken segregationist governor of Arkansas, and gained national attention when a photograph of him shaking hands with Faubus hit the front page of The New York Times on September 14, 1957.