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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
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 ...
Political history of Arkansas (7 C, ... Pages in category "Politics of Arkansas" ... Political party strength in Arkansas; U.
The General Assembly of Arkansas is authorized by the Arkansas Constitution, which is the state's fifth constitution. The first constitution was ratified on January 30, 1836, and the current constitution was adopted in 1874. [2] The constitution has also been amended throughout the state's history since 1874. [2]
Political events in Arkansas (3 C) L. ... Pages in category "Political history of Arkansas" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
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.