View a list of Arkansas governors since 1836
Governor James Sevier Conway
Term: 1836 - 1840
Party: Democratic
Governor Archibald Yell
Term: 1840 - 1844
Party: Democratic
Governor Samuel Adams
Term: 1844 - 1844
Party: Democratic
Governor Thomas Stevenson Drew
Term: 1844 - 1849
Party: Democratic
Governor Richard C. Byrd
Term: 1849 - 1849
Party: Democratic
Governor John Selden Roane
Term: 1849 - 1852
Party: Democratic
Governor Elias Nelson Conway
Term: 1852 - 1860
Party: Democratic
Governor Henry Massey Rector
Term: 1860 - 1862
Party: Democratic
Governor Harris Flanagin
Term: 1862 - 1864
Party: Democratic
Governor Isaac Murphy
Term: 1864 - 1868
Party: Republican
Governor Powell Clayton
Term: 1868 - 1871
Party: Republican
Governor Ozra A. Hadley
Term: 1871 - 1873
Party: Republican
Governor Elisha Baxter
Term: 1873 - 1874
Party: Republican
Governor Augustus Hill Garland
Term: 1874 - 1877
Party: Democratic
Governor William Read Miller
Term: 1877 - 1881
Party: Democratic
Governor Thomas James Churchill
Term: 1881 - 1883
Party: Democratic
Governor James Henderson Berry
Term: 1883 - 1885
Party: Democratic
Governor Simon P. Hughes
Term: 1885 - 1889
Party: Democratic
Governor James Philip Eagle
Term: 1889 - 1893
Party: Democratic
Governor William Meade Fishback
Term: 1893 - 1895
Party: Democratic
Governor James Paul Clarke
Term: 1895 - 1897
Party: Democratic
Governor Daniel Webster Jones
Term: 1897 - 1901
Party: Democratic
Governor Jefferson Davis
Term: 1901 - 1907
Party: Democratic
Governor John Sebastian Little
Term: 1907 - 1907
Party: Democratic
Governor John Isaac Moore
Term: 1907 - 1907
Party: Democratic
Governor Xenophon Overton Pindall
Term: 1907 - 1909
Party: Democratic
Governor George W. Donaghey
Term: 1909 - 1913
Party: Democratic
Governor Joseph Taylor Robinson
Term: 1913 - 1913
Party: Democratic
Governor William Kavanaugh Oldham
Term: 1913 - 1913
Party: Democratic
Governor Junius Marion Futrell
Term: 1913 - 1913
Party: Democratic
Governor George Washington Hays
Term: 1913 - 1917
Party: Democratic
Governor Charles Hillman Brough
Term: 1917 - 1921
Party: Democratic
Governor Thomas Chipman McRae
Term: 1921 - 1925
Party: Democratic
Governor Thomas Jefferson Terral
Term: 1925 - 1927
Party: Democratic
Governor John Ellis Martineau
Term: 1927 - 1928
Party: Democratic
Governor Harvey Parnell
Term: 1928 - 1933
Party: Democratic
Governor Junius Marion Futrell
Term: 1933 - 1937
Party: Democratic
Governor Carl Edward Bailey
Term: 1937 - 1941
Party: Democratic
Governor Homer Martin Adkins
Term: 1941 - 1945
Party: Democratic
Governor Benjamin Travis Laney
Term: 1945 - 1949
Party: Democratic
Governor Sidney Sanders McMath
Term: 1949 - 1953
Party: Democratic
Governor Francis Adams Cherry
Term: 1953 - 1955
Party: Democratic
Governor Orval Eugene Faubus
Term: 1955 - 1967
Party: Democratic
Governor Winthrop Rockefeller
Term: 1967 - 1971
Party: Republican
Governor Dale Bumpers
Term: 1971 - 1975
Party: Democratic
Governor David Hampton Pryor
Term: 1975 - 1979
Party: Democratic
Governor Bill Clinton
Term: 1979 - 1981
Party: Democratic
Governor Frank D. White
Term: 1981 - 1983
Party: Republican
Governor Bill Clinton
Term: 1983 - 1992
Party: Democratic
Governor Jim Guy Tucker
Term: 1992 - 1996
Party: Democratic
Governor Mike Huckabee
Term: 1996 - 2007
Party: Republican
Governor Mike Beebe
Term: 2007 - 2015
Party: Democratic
Governor Asa Hutchinson
Term: 2015 - 2023
Party: Republican
Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Term: 2023 - Present
Party: Republican
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