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Town and Country: Race Relations in an Urban-Rural Context, Arkansas 1865–1905. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1990. Kousser, J. Morgan. The Shaping of Southern Politics: Suffrage Restriction and the Establishment of the One-Party South, 1880–1910. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974. Ogden, Frederic D. The Poll Tax in the ...
The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of Arkansas: Governor; Lieutenant Governor; Secretary of State; Attorney General; State Auditor; State Treasurer; State Land Commissioner; The table also indicates the historical party composition in the: State Senate; State House of Representatives
Beginning around 11,700 B.C.E., the first indigenous people inhabited the area now known as Arkansas after crossing today's Bering Strait, formerly Beringia. [3] The first people in modern-day Arkansas likely hunted woolly mammoths by running them off cliffs or using Clovis points, and began to fish as major rivers began to thaw towards the end of the last great ice age. [4]
Arkansas was the only state in the nation not carried by Republicans at least once between 1876 and 1968, although it voted for segregationist George Wallace in 1968. It was the only Deep South state carried by Lyndon Johnson in 1964, just following the passage of the Civil Rights Act, however, Democratic support did weaken after this.
In the 1968 presidential election, American Independent Party candidate George Wallace became the second third-party presidential candidate to win Arkansas. [9] Arkansas was the only state in the 1992 presidential election to be won by a majority of the popular vote; [ 10 ] Bill Clinton , its governor at the time, won Arkansas with 53.21 ...
The presidential election of 1860 was an important inflection point in Arkansas politics. Given the distasteful policies of Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party to many southerners, the election became a three-horse race: Southern Democratic candidate 14th Vice President of the United States John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky, Constitutional Union candidate Senator John Bell of Tennessee ...
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar ... Democratic Party of Arkansas (2 C, ... Republican Party of Arkansas (1 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Political parties in ...
Political history of Arkansas (7 C, ... Pages in category "Politics of Arkansas" ... Political party strength in Arkansas; U.