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- ↑ "Reflecting on bi-partisanship in Arkansas politics". The Des Moines Register .
- 1 2 Arkansas (1903). "Reports of State Officers".
- ↑ https://ssl-sos-site.ark.org/uploads/elections/historical_report1210.pdf
- ↑ "Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern Arkansas: Comprising a Condensed History of the State, a Number of Biographies of Distinguished Citizens of the Same, a Brief Descriptive History of Each of the Counties". 1890.
- ↑ Sharp, James Roger; Sharp, Nancy Weatherly (1999). American Legislative Leaders in the South, 1911-1994. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9780313302138.
- ↑ "Rankin 1". The Courier News. 7 August 1942. p. 13.
- ↑ Ohio Legislative History: 1909-1912. F.J. Heer Printing. 1912.
- ↑ "Arkansas Senate".
- ↑ "Arkansas Senate elects Hester as president pro tempore; Shepherd elected House speaker for 3rd time | Arkansas Democrat Gazette". 9 January 2023.