Hendrix College is a private liberal arts college in Conway,Arkansas. Approximately 1,000 students are enrolled,mostly undergraduates. While affiliated with the United Methodist Church,the college offers a secular curriculum and has a student body composed of people from many different religious backgrounds. Hendrix is a member of the Associated Colleges of the South.
Blanche Lambert Lincoln is an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Arkansas from 1999 to 2011. A member of the Democratic Party,she was first elected to the Senate in 1998;she was the first woman elected to the Senate from Arkansas since Hattie Caraway in 1932 and youngest woman ever elected to the Senate at age 38. She previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives,representing Arkansas's 1st congressional district from 1993 to 1997.
Robert Marion Berry was an American politician who was the U.S. representative for Arkansas's 1st congressional district from 1997 to 2011. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
Thomas Dale Alford Sr. was an American ophthalmologist and politician from the U.S. state of Arkansas who served as a conservative Democrat in the United States House of Representatives from Little Rock from 1959 to 1963.
Kathryn Jean Whitmire is an American politician,businesswoman,and accountant best known as the first woman to serve as Mayor of Houston,serving for five consecutive two-year terms from 1982 to 1992. From 1977 to 1981,she was the city controller,a position which made her the first woman elected to any office in the city. Whitmire drew national attention when she defeated former Harris County Sheriff Jack Heard in her election as mayor. The election drew national focus because it symbolized a major political realignment in the fourth-largest city in the United States.
Lottie H. Shackelford is an American politician who in 1987 was the first woman appointed Mayor of Little Rock,Arkansas. In 1993,President Bill Clinton appointed her to the Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC),making her the first African-American woman to serve in that role. She also is the longest serving Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC),having held the office for 20 years.
Jeremy Young Hutchinson is a former politician and convicted felon. A Republican,he served in the Arkansas State Senate for District 33 in the capital city of Little Rock,Arkansas. He served in the Arkansas House of Representatives from two different districts in Pulaski County between 2000 and 2007 and as a state senator from 2011 to his resignation in 2018.
James B. Argue Jr. was the President Pro Tempore of the Arkansas State Senate,United States. He was a Democratic member of the Arkansas Senate,representing the 32nd District from 1996 to 2008. Previously he was a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1991 through 1996
Robert F. Thompson is a former Democratic member of the Arkansas Senate. He represented the 11th District of Arkansas from 2007 to 2013. After senate districts were reorganized,he went on to represent District 20 from 2013 to 2015. Both districts included several counties in northeast Arkansas. From 2005 to 2007,he was a State Representative for the 78th district of the Arkansas House of Representatives,representing the city of Paragould in Greene County,Arkansas. Thompson currently practices law at the Paragould law firm of Branch,Thompson,Warmath,&Dale P.A.
Dustin Blake McDaniel is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 55th Attorney General of Arkansas from 2007 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party,he a founding partner of the Little Rock,Arkansas law firm McDaniel Wolff,PLLC. As of 2023,McDaniel is the last Democrat to have held the position of Arkansas Attorney General.
Little Rock is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Arkansas. The city's population was 204,405 in 2022. The six-county Little Rock metropolitan area is the 81st-most populous in the United States with 748,031 residents according to the 2020 census.
Denise Ilitch is a Detroit-area businessperson,lawyer,and member of the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan. Ilitch was rumored to be a Democratic Party candidate for Governor of Michigan in 2010,after having met with the White House in early January to discuss a potential run,though she later declined to run.
Dr. Molly Beth Beene Malcolm is an American educator and former politician. She is the executive vice chancellor of operations and public affairs for Austin Community College in Austin,Texas.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Little Rock,Arkansas,US.
Wallace Townsend was an American lawyer who was from 1928 to 1961 the Republican national committeeman for the U.S. state of Arkansas. When he left his party's national committee,he was succeeded by Winthrop Rockefeller,who was elected five years thereafter in 1966 as the state's first Republican governor since the Reconstruction era.
Patrick Henry Hays was an American lawyer and politician from the state of Arkansas. A member of the Democratic Party,he served in the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1987 to 1989 and as the mayor of North Little Rock from 1989 to 2013. Hays was the Democratic nominee for Arkansas's 2nd congressional district in the 2014 elections to the United States House of Representatives.
Larry R. Teague is a former American politician and was 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 served as Senate Minority Whip. He was 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.
Will Bond is an attorney and Democratic politician from Little Rock,Arkansas. Born in Jacksonville,Bond studied political science at Vanderbilt University before earning a Juris Doctor at the University of Arkansas School of Law in 1995. Working as an attorney in Central Arkansas,Bond represented the Jacksonville area in the Arkansas House of Representatives from 2003 to 2008. He was elected chair of the Democratic Party of Arkansas in 2011,serving until 2013. Bond served in the Arkansas Senate from 2016 to 2021. He lives in Little Rock with his wife Gabriel and their three children.
John M. Lewellen was an American politician. He was elected and served on the Little Rock City Board of Directors,the Pulaski County Quorum Court and in the Arkansas State Legislature representing the district in which he resided. He was a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1999 to 2004,when he was succeeded by his wife,Wilhelmina Lewellen who served until 2010. John Lewellen is the only Arkansas official to have been elected and represented his district on the city,county and state level.
Richard Leon Mays Sr. an American retired politician,judge,lawyer,and businessman from the U.S. state of Arkansas. Elected to the Arkansas House of Representatives in 1972,he was one of the first three African Americans to serve in the Arkansas General Assembly since the Reconstruction era. Governor Bill Clinton appointed Mays to the Arkansas Supreme Court in 1980.
