List of Arkansas governors from first to last

Arkansas joined the Union on June 15, 1836, becoming the 25th state to do so. Its admission to the Union was part of the country’s westward expansion during the 19th century.

James Sevier Conway became the first governor of Arkansas on September 13, 1836.

Here is a chronological list of the governors of Arkansas from First to last.

Name	Time in Office	Party
James Sevier Conway	1836 – 1840	Democrat
Archibald Yell	1840 – 1844	Democrat
Samuel Adams	1844 – 1844	Democrat
Thomas Stevenson Drew	1844 – 1849	Democrat
Richard C. Byrd	1849 – 1849	Democrat
John Selden Roane	1849 – 1852	Democrat
Elias Nelson Conway	1852 – 1860	Democrat
Henry Massey Rector	1860 – 1862	Democrat
Harris Flanagin	1862 – 1864	Democrat
Isaac Murphy	1864 – 1868	Republican
Powell Clayton	1868 – 1871	Republican
Ozra A. Hadley	1871 – 1873	Republican
Elisha Baxter	1873 – 1874	Republican
Augustus Hill Garland	1874 – 1877	Democrat
William Read Miller	1877 – 1881	Democrat
Thomas James Churchill	1881 – 1883	Democrat
James Henderson Berry	1883 – 1885	Democrat
Simon P. Hughes	1885 – 1889	Democrat
James Philip Eagle	1889 – 1893	Democrat
William Meade Fishback	1893 – 1895	Democrat
James Paul Clarke	1895 – 1897	Democrat
Daniel Webster Jones	1897 – 1901	Democrat
Jefferson Davis	1901 – 1907	Democrat
John Sebastian Little	1907 – 1907	Democrat
John Isaac Moore	1907 – 1907	Democrat
Xenophon Overton Pindall	1907 – 1909	Democrat
George W. Donaghey	1909 – 1913	Democrat
Joseph Taylor Robinson	1913 – 1913	Democrat
William Kavanaugh Oldham	1913 – 1913	Democrat
George Washington Hays	1913 – 1917	Democrat
Charles Hillman Brough	1917 – 1921	Democrat
Thomas Chipman McRae	1921 – 1925	Democrat
Thomas Jefferson Terral	1925 – 1927	Democrat
John Ellis Martineau	1927 – 1928	Democrat
Harvey Parnell	1928 – 1933	Democrat
Junius Marion Futrell	1933 – 1937, 1913 – 1913	Democrat
Carl Edward Bailey	1937 – 1941	Democrat
Homer Martin Adkins	1941 – 1945	Democrat
Benjamin Travis Laney	1945 – 1949	Democrat
Sidney Sanders McMath	1949 – 1953	Democrat
Francis Adams Cherry	1953 – 1955	Democrat
Orval Eugene Faubus	1955 – 1967	Democrat
Winthrop Rockefeller	1967 – 1971	Republican
Dale Bumpers	1971 – 1975	Democrat
David Hampton Pryor	1975 – 1979	Democrat
Frank D. White	1981 – 1983	Republican
William Jefferson Clinton	1979 – 1981, 1983 – 1992	Democrat
Jim Guy Tucker	1992 – 1996	Democrat
Mike Huckabee	1996 – 2007	Republican
Mike Beebe	2007 – 2015	Democrat
Asa Hutchinson	2015 – 2019, 2019 – 2023	Republican
Sarah Huckabee Sanders	2023 –	Republican