Woodruff County is located in the Arkansas Delta in the U.S. state of Arkansas. The county is named for William E. Woodruff,founder of the state's first newspaper,the Arkansas Gazette. Created as Arkansas's 54th county in 1862,Woodruff County is home to one incorporated town and four incorporated cities,including Augusta,the county seat. The county is also the site of numerous unincorporated communities and ghost towns. Occupying only 587 square miles (152,000 ha),Woodruff County is the 13th smallest county in Arkansas. As of the 2010 Census,the county's population is 7,260 people in 3,531 households. Based on population,the county is the second-smallest county of the 75 in Arkansas. Located in the Arkansas Delta,the county is largely flat with fertile soils. Historically covered in forest,bayous and swamps,the area was cleared for agriculture by early settlers. It is drained by the Cache River and the White River. Along the Cache River,the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) runs north–south across the county,preserving bottomland forest,sloughs and wildlife habitat.
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette is the newspaper of record in the U.S. state of Arkansas,printed in Little Rock with a northwest edition published in Lowell. It is distributed for sale in all 75 of Arkansas' counties.
WEHCO Media,Inc.,based in Little Rock,AR is a privately held media company with holdings that include newspapers,cable television systems,and internet service. Walter E. Hussman,Jr.,is the president. Hussmann is the grandson of Clyde E. Palmer,whose media holdings formed the basis of WEHCO Media. WEHCO is an acronym for Walter E. Hussman Company.
The Democratic Party of Arkansas is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the state of Arkansas. The current party chair is Grant Tennille.
Arkansas State University–Mountain Home (ASUMH) is a public community college in Mountain Home,Arkansas. It is part of the Arkansas State University System and primarily serves students of north central Arkansas. Among other tracks,the college prepares nurses who may then go on to serve at the health complex and supporting facilities that surround the Baxter Regional Medical Center in Mountain Home. ASUMH serves approximately 1,500 students each year.
Arkansas's 2010 general elections were held November 2,2010. Primaries were held May 18,2010 and runoffs,if necessary,were held November 23,2010. Arkansas elected seven constitutional officers,17 of 35 state senate seats,all 100 house seats and 28 district prosecuting attorneys,and voted on one constitutional amendment and one referred question. Non-partisan judicial elections were held the same day as the party primaries for four Supreme Court justices,four appeals circuit court judges,and eight district court judges.
The 1836 and 1837 United States Senate elections were elections that had the Jacksonian coalition emerge as the Democratic Party,and the Adams,or Anti-Jackson,coalition emerge as the Whig Party
The 2012 United States presidential election in Arkansas took place on November 6,2012,as part of the 2012 General Election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Arkansas voters chose six electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote pitting incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama and his running mate,Vice President Joe Biden,against Republican challenger and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and his running mate,Congressman Paul Ryan.
Michael John Lamoureux is a lawyer,lobbyist,and former Republican politician from Russellville,Arkansas. He served in the Arkansas General Assembly for over ten years before resigning to serve as chief of staff to Governor Asa Hutchinson. In 2016,Lamoreaux resigned and joined a lobbying firm.
Northwest Arkansas (NWA) is a metropolitan area and region in Arkansas within the Ozark Mountains. It includes four of the ten largest cities in the state:Fayetteville,Springdale,Rogers,and Bentonville,the surrounding towns of Benton and Washington counties,and adjacent rural Madison County,Arkansas. The United States Census Bureau-defined Fayetteville–Springdale–Rogers Metropolitan Statistical Area includes 3,213.01 square miles (8,321.7 km2) and 560,709 residents,ranking NWA as the 102nd most-populous metropolitan statistical area in the U.S. and the 13th fastest growing in the United States.
The 2014 United States House of Representatives elections in Arkansas was held on Tuesday,November 4,2014 to elect the four U.S. representatives from the state of Arkansas,one from each of the state's four congressional districts. The elections coincided with the elections of other federal and state offices,including the governor of Arkansas and a United States senator.
Larry R. Teague is an American politician and a Democratic member of the Arkansas Senate representing District 10,which includes Howard,Montgomery,Pike,and Polk counties and parts of Clark,Hempstead,Nevada,and Sevier counties. He also serves as Senate Minority Whip. He is ineligible to seek re-election in 2022 due to term limits. Teague served consecutively in the Arkansas General Assembly from January 2009 until January 2013 in the Senate District 20 seat and from January 1997 through January 2002 in the Arkansas House of Representatives District 19 seat.
James French Hill is an American businessman and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Arkansas's 2nd congressional district since 2015. He is a member of the Republican Party.
The 2018 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on November 6,2018,to elect the Governor of Arkansas,concurrently with elections to the United States Senate in other states,elections to the United States House of Representatives,and various state and local elections.
The 2022 United States Senate elections will be held on November 8,2022,with 34 of the 100 seats in the Senate being contested in regular elections,the winners of which will serve six-year terms in the United States Congress from January 3,2023,to January 3,2029. Senators are divided into three groups,or classes,whose terms are staggered so that a different class is elected every two years. Class 3 senators,who were last elected in 2016,will be up for election again in 2022.
Keaundre "Dre" Greenlaw is an American football outside linebacker for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Arkansas.
The Eighty-Ninth Arkansas General Assembly was the legislative body of the state of Arkansas in 2013 and 2014. In this General Assembly,the Arkansas Senate and Arkansas House of Representatives were both controlled by the Republicans. In the Senate,21 senators were Republicans and 14 were Democrats. In the House,69 representatives were Republicans,30 were Democrats,and one was independent. The 89th General Assembly was the first time both chambers were controlled by Republicans since the Reconstruction era.
Megan Cardwell Godfrey is an American educator and politician serving in the Arkansas House of Representatives from the 89th district. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
The Ninety-Second Arkansas General Assembly is the legislative body of the state of Arkansas in 2019 and 2020. In this General Assembly,the Arkansas Senate and Arkansas House of Representatives were both controlled by the Republicans. In the Senate,26 senators were Republicans and 9 were Democrats. In the House,76 representatives were Republicans,24 were Democrats. A special session was called in March 2020 to address the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 2020 Arkansas House of Representatives elections were held on November 3,2020. Elections were held to elect representatives from all 100 House of Representatives districts across the U.S. state of Arkansas. It was held alongside numerous other federal,state,and local elections,including the 2020 Arkansas Senate elections.
