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Obituary of artist Thomas W. Bankes in the Gazette on 29 March 1906. During Reconstruction, a competitor arose by various names, under various editors, and with several different owners. In 1878, J.N. Smithee bought the newspaper, changed its name to the Arkansas Democrat, and went after lucrative state printing contracts held by the Gazette.
The Democrat was founded on June 14, 1860, and operated under that name until 1893. The paper was then renamed to the Fayetteville Daily Democrat. In 1911, it was purchased by Jay Fulbright and upon his death in 1923 passed to his wife, Roberta Fulbright. She became president and publisher, renaming the paper to the Northwest Arkansas Times in ...
John Robert Starr became managing editor of the Arkansas Democrat in 1978. He was hired by publisher Walter E. Hussman Jr., who intended to take on the rival Arkansas Gazette, which was the state's premier newspaper and the oldest continuously published newspaper west of the Mississippi River.
Will Counts was born in Little Rock on August 24, 1931. [1] During the Depression he, his brother, and his parents (Ira Counts Sr. and Jeanne Frances Adams Counts) were sharecroppers in White County, outside the town of Rose Bud and in Lonoke County, outside of Cabot, before they relocated in 1936 to the Plum Bayou Homesteads, a New Deal project, in Jefferson County.
Arkansas Advocate: Little Rock 1830 1837 [5] Arkansas Banner: Little Rock 1843 1845 Owned by the Democratic Party of Arkansas in 1945 [5] Arkansas County Gazette: DeWitt: 1884 1886 [6] Arkansas Democrat: DeWitt 1879 1882 [7] Arkansas Farmer: Little Rock 1844 1845 [5] Arkansas Forum: Siloam Springs 1921 c. 1921 [8] Arkansas Gazette: Arkansas ...
Hussman was born in Texarkana, Arkansas, but moved in 1949 to Camden, Arkansas, with his parents, Walter E. Hussman Sr. (1906–1988) and the former Betty Palmer (1911–1990), and two older sisters. Hussman Sr. published The Camden News , which he had purchased from his father-in-law, Clyde E. Palmer (1876–1957).
Greenberg may have not, however, been the first to use the term in reference to Clinton. According to Meredith L. Oakley, the term was coined by Jess L. Crosser who often berated the young governor in letters to the editor of the Arkansas Democrat. [5] According to Greenberg, actually popularized by the newspaper's managing editor, John R. Starr.
Her journalism career began as a reporter for the Arkansas Democrat, a major newspaper in Arkansas. She also worked in television news in Little Rock and Washington. She was White House correspondent for the Gannett News Service. She returned to Arkansas and newspaper journalism at the Arkansas Gazette as an editorial columnist and associate ...