Member, House of Representatives, 1842-1843.  Delegate, secession convention, 1861.  Colonel, Confederate Army.  Governor, 1862-1865.  Delegate, constitutional convention of 1874.  Died 1874.

8.  Isaac Murphy, 1864-1868

Teacher, lawyer, Unionist Democrat.  Born in Pennsylvania, 1799.  Settled in Tennessee, 1830; came to Arkansas 1834.  Married Angelina A. Lockhart, 1830; eight children.

Member, House of Representatives, Washington County, 1848-1849.  Went to California 1849, returned 1853.  Moved to Huntsville, Madison County, 1854.  State senator, 1856-1857.

Delegate, secession convention of 1861; only member who refused to vote for secession of Arkansas from the Union.  Served with Union Army, 1861-1863.  Organized Unionist state government in Little Rock, 1864; served as governor until displaced by Radical Republicans, 1868.  Died in Huntsville, 1882.

9.  Powell Clayton, 1868-1871

Civil engineer, soldier, Republican.  Born in Pennsylvania, 1833. 
Educated in the common schools, the Partridge Military Academy in
Bristol, Pennsylvania, and in an engineering school at Wilmington,
Delaware.  Moved to Kansas, 1855; became city engineer of Leavenworth,
Kansas, 1859.

Brigadier general, Union Army; came to Arkansas with army during Civil War.  At close of war, settled on a cotton plantation near Pine Bluff.  Married Adeline McGraw, 1865; five children.

Governor, 1868-1871; resigned in 1871 to become United States senator for term ending 1877.  Moved from Little Rock to Eureka Springs, 1882.  United States ambassador to Mexico, 1897-1905.  Lived in Washington, D.C. from 1912 until his death in 1915.

Note:  The unexpired portion of Powell Clayton’s term as governor,
      1871-1873, was completed by Ozra A. Hadley, president of the
      State Senate.

10.  Elisha Baxter, 1873-1874

Lawyer, Republican.  Born in North Carolina, 1827.  Married Harriet
Patton, 1849; six children.  Came to Arkansas 1852, settled in
Batesville.  Member, House of Representatives, 1854-1855, 1858-1859. 
Prosecuting attorney, 1861-1862.

Raised and commanded Fourth Arkansas Mounted Infantry Regiment (Union) during Civil War.  Elected to State Supreme Court, 1864, and then to United States Senate, but not allowed to take his seat.  Circuit judge, 1868-1873.  Governor, 1873-1874; his term of office was cut short by the Brooks-Baxter War and the adoption of a new state constitution.  Died 1899.

11.  Augustus H. Garland, 1874-1877

Lawyer, Democrat.  Born in Tennessee, 1832.  His parents came to what is now Miller County, Arkansas, 1833; later the family located in Washington, Hempstead County.  Educated in a private school at Washington; at St. Mary’s College, Lebanon, Kentucky; and at St. Joseph’s College, Bardstown, Kentucky, where he graduated 1849.  Married Virginia Saunders, 1853; eight children.  Moved to Little Rock, 1856.