Donaghey served as governor of Arkansas from 1909 to 1913. As well as successfully overseeing the building of the state's new capitol, the Donaghey administration had a number of other achievements, most notably in public education and public health. Donaghey's most celebrated act, however, was his mass pardoning in 1912 of 360 state penitentiary inmates.

Materials pertain particularly to his administration as Governor of Arkansas, 1913-1917, especially as regards the Southern Governors' Cotton Convention of 1915; the collection of and extension of payments of state taxes due, 1915-1916; proposed prohibition legis lation, 1916; and controversies surrounding the State Penitentiary and the State Hospital for Nervous Diseases, 1914-1915.

First accession of papers of the Arkansas Governor and Senator especially pertaining to his years in the U.S. Senate.

Correspondence, addresses, lectures and speeches, clippings, invitations, literary manuscripts, pamphlets, programs, reports, and other material pertaining to the life and to the personal, family, academic, professional, political, civic, religious and other affairs of Brough, lawyer, educator, lecturer and author who was professor of economics and sociology at the University of Arkansas from 1903 to 1915 and who served as Governor of Arkansas from 1917 to 1921.

Correspondence, speeches, clippings, essays, memoranda, pamphlets, reports, bulletins, receipts, invoices, minutes of meetings, legislative bills, lists, invitations, notes, broadsides, and other documents relating to the personal, familial, professional, business, political, and other affairs of McRae, banker, lawyer, and legislator, United States Congressman (1885-1903), and Governor of Arkansas (1921- 1924).

McMath successfully ran for prosecuting attorney in 1946 and helped abolish a twenty-year rule of machine politics. Two years later McMath ran for governor of Arkansas and was elected. During his two-term administration, highways were constructed, educational reforms initiated, medical facilities upgraded, and Governor McMath worked to improve conditions for blacks in Arkansas. McMath was defeated in his bid for a third term in 1952. He attempted two political comebacks. In 1954 McMath was narrowly defeated by incumbent John L. McClellan for the U.S. Senate, and Governor Orval Faubus defeated all opponents, including McMath, in the 1962 Democratic primary. After McMath left office he practiced law in Little Rock and remained active in the United States Marine Corps Reserve.

Variety of personal and official correspondence and other material created, received, or collected by Faubus (1910-1978) or by staff members of the Arkansas gubernatorial office (1955 -1967)

The collection includes materials from Senator Pryor's time as publisher of the Ouachita Citizen, his terms in the Arkansas General Assembly and United States House of Representatives, his two terms as governor of Arkansas, and to his term in the United States Senate.

Related material:

Box 403 (cont.) Carmie Henry Files, 44. Arkansas Indian Cultural Center–1988.

Box 499 Subject Files–Invitations (cont.), 15. Keetoowah (Cherokee) Indian Reservation, Scott County, 1995.

The Archives was begun in 1975 by Dr. Jimmie Rogers of the university's Department of Communications. Because of their shared interest in the subject of political communication, Professors Stephen Smith and Rogers collaborated on assembling materials relating to politics, with an emphasis on politics in Arkansas. Includes clippings, research files, and ephemera related to Clinton, Rockefeller and others.

From the Newspapers Research Guide, this page gives more information on locating Arkansas papers in all formats.

Search for newspapers in our collection by county, city, decade, or combination.

Little Rock, <1941 - 1959, some gaps>. The Arkansas African American paper, published by L.C. Bates.
Multimedia Microfilm E185.5 .A77.

The online version provides a PDF version of the indexes covering 1880-1893 and parts of 1957 and the decades of the 1960s, 1980s, and 1990s.
The printed index covers 1819-1894 and 1960-1993 in and is shelved in REF AI 21 .A75.
The online version of the Arkansas Gazette and Arkansas Democrat-Gazette can be found at https://uark.libguides.com/ARDEMGAZ.
The microfilm of the Arkansas Gazette and Arkansas Democrat-Gazette is housed i n Library Annex Lisa at call number F419.L7 A7.