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The attorney general was not originally a state constitutional officer but rather was created by Act 1 of 1843, which designated the Arkansas attorney for the Fifth Judicial District as the attorney general. The first attorney general of Arkansas was Robert W. Johnson. The Arkansas Constitution of 1868 made the post elective, though it required ...
Yonley became Arkansas Attorney General on January 8, 1873, [2] and served in that capacity until the Constitution of 1874 was established, when he was briefly succeeded by J. L. Witherspoon, who was ousted in the election that year by Confederate General Simon P. Hughes. Yonley then resumed the practice of law.
John Timothy Griffin (born August 21, 1968) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the 57th attorney general of Arkansas.He served as the 20th lieutenant governor of Arkansas from 2015 to 2023.
Leslie Carol Rutledge (born June 9, 1976) is an American attorney and politician who has served as the 21st lieutenant governor of Arkansas since 2023. A member of the Republican Party, she was previously the 56th attorney general of Arkansas from 2015 to 2023.
Augustus Hill Garland (June 11, 1832 – January 26, 1899) was an American lawyer and Democratic politician from Arkansas, who initially opposed Arkansas' secession from the United States, but later served in both houses of the Congress of the Confederate States and the United States Senate, as well as becoming the 11th governor of Arkansas (1874–1877) and the 38th attorney general of the ...
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Mickey Dale Beebe (/ ˈ b iː b i /; born December 28, 1946) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 45th governor of Arkansas from 2007 to 2015. [1] He is to date the last Democrat to hold that office. Born in Amagon, Arkansas, Beebe is a graduate of Arkansas State University in Jonesboro and the University of Arkansas in ...
[60] [61] Joe Purcell, a former lieutenant governor and attorney general of Arkansas, and Jim Guy Tucker, the representative for Arkansas's 2nd congressional district and a former attorney general, launched strong challenges against him in the Democratic primaries. Determined to undercut Tucker, Clinton claimed that Tucker was mostly absent ...