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- ↑ "Arkansas Senate Pro Tempores". Arkansas Senate.
- 1 2 "Siloam's Russell Elrod: 'The Little Fox'". Northwest Arkansas Times. 5 January 1967. p. 16. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
- ↑ "The Arkansas Hand-book". Christian Associations of the University of Arkansas. December 23, 1949 – via Google Books.
- ↑ Daniels, Charlie. "Historical report of the secretary of state 2008" (PDF). Retrieved 29 March 2024.
- ↑ "Elrod Seeking Re-Election to State Senate". Northwest Arkansas Times. 20 April 1968. p. 2. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
- 1 2 "Russell Elrod Obituary". newspaperarchive.com. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
- ↑ "1951 Senate composite photo of the Fifty-Eighth General Assembly of the State of Arkansas". Arkansas General Assembly Composite Images, 1866-2023. December 31, 1951.
- ↑ "1965 Senate composite photo of the Sixty-Fifth General Assembly of the State of Arkansas". Arkansas General Assembly Composite Images, 1866-2023. December 31, 1965.
- ↑ "Siloam Springs, Russell Elrod 81 dies". Tulsa World. 4 December 1985. p. 44. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
