Governor of Arkansas - Definition and Overview

This is a list of governors of Arkansas.

Territorial Governors, 1819-1836

• James Miller 1819-1825
• George Izard 1825-1828
• Robert Crittenden (acting) 1828-1829
• John Pope (Democrat) 1829-1835
• William Savin Fulton (Democrat) 1835-1836

State Governors, 1836-present

• James Sevier Conway (Democrat) 1836-1840
• Archibald Yell (Democrat) 1840-1844
• Samuel Adams (Democrat, acting) 1844
• Thomas Stevenson Drew (Democrat) 1844-1849
• Richard C. Byrd (Democrat, acting) 1849
• John Selden Roane (Democrat) 1849-1852
• Elias Nelson Conway (Democrat) 1852-1860
• Henry Massey Rector (Democrat) 1860-1862
• Harris Flanagin (Democrat) 1862-1864
• Isaac Murphy (Unionist) 1864-1868
• Powell Clayton (Republican) 1868-1871
• Ozra Amander Hadley (Republican, acting) 1871-1873
• Elisha Baxter (Republican) 1873-1874
• Augustus Hill Garland (Democrat) 1874-1877
• William Read Miller (Democrat) 1877-1881
• Thomas James Churchill (Democrat) 1881-1883
• James Henderson Berry (Democrat) 1883-1885
• Simon Pollard Hughes, Jr. (Democrat) 1885-1889
• James Philip Eagle (Democrat) 1889-1893
• William Meade Fishback (Democrat) 1893-1895
• James Paul Clarke (Democrat) 1895-1897
• Daniel Webster Jones (Democrat) 1897-1901
• Jefferson Davis (Democrat) 1901-1907
• John Sebastian Little (Democrat) 1907
• John Isaac Moore (Democrat, acting) 1907
• Xenophon Overton Pindall (Democrat, acting) 1907-1909
• Jesse M. Martin (Democrat, acting) 1909
• George Washington Donaghey (Democrat) 1909-1913
• Joseph Taylor Robinson (Democrat) 1913
• William Kavanaugh Oldham (Democrat, acting) 1913
• Junius Marion Futrell (Democrat, acting) 1913
• George Washington Hays (Democrat) 1913-1917
• Charles Hillman Brough (Democrat) 1917-1921
• Thomas Chipman McRae (Democrat) 1921-1925
• Tom Jefferson Terral (Democrat) 1925-1927
• John Ellis Martineau (Democrat) 1927-1928
• Harvey Parnell (Democrat) 1928-1933
• Junius Marion Futrell (Democrat) 1933-1937
• Carl Edward Bailey (Democrat) 1937-1941
• Homer Martin Adkins (Democrat) 1941-1945
• Benjamin Travis Laney (Democrat) 1945-1949
• Sidney Sanders McMath (Democrat) 1949-1953
• Francis Cherry (Democrat) 1953-1955
• Orval Faubus (Democrat) 1955-1967
• Winthrop Rockefeller (Republican) 1967-1971
• Dale Bumpers (Democrat) 1971-1975
• Bob C. Riley (Democrat, acting) 1975
• David Pryor (Democrat) 1975-1979
• Joe Purcell (Democrat, acting) 1979
• William J. Clinton (Democrat) 1979-1981
• Frank D. White (Republican) 1981-1983
• William J. Clinton (Democrat) 1983-1992
• Jim Guy Tucker (Democrat) 1992-1996
• Mike Huckabee (Republican) 1996-present