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• Skip Rutherford
  Rutherford was subpoenaed in February 2001 by the [[Burton House Committee on Government Reform]], which was investigating possible links between Foundation fund-ra ...vice president with [[Cranford Johnson Robinson Woods]] (CJRW), one of the state's largest advertising firms. Rutherford is also a former administrative ass
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• Eugene Pfeifer III
  ...Truman Library] is on land given by a city. The rest were supplied by the state as a whole or by private funds." He also noted an increase in zoo patron fe ...12, 2002, the [[Attorney General|Attorney General's Office]] filed suit as government representative for the [[Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality]] (AD
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• Main Page
  *[[Arkansas State Capitol]] ...and civilian labor. Paper for making gun cartridges was so scarce that the State Library was ransacked for spare material. Federal occupiers demanded water
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• Jimmy Moses
  ...lved into the nonprofit [[Little Rock Downtown Partnership]]. Business and government leaders representing the new coalition began looking for development projec ...l off the property as office space, cutting its losses. Today thirty state government agencies thrive on the dissected Main Street Market block.
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• Clinton School of Public Service
  ...parts of the program are modeled after Boston's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Seven graduate schools of public service with ties to past presidents are *"First Classes Begin at Clinton School," Associated Press State & Local Wire, August 23, 2005.
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• Bruce Moore
  ...ive in State and Local Government Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.
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• Lottie Shackelford
  ...he studied at the Arkansas Institute of Politics and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. ...ings for Arkansas, including serving as a Chair of the Arkansas Democratic State Committee and as a delegate to the l980,'84,'88,'92, '96, 2000 and '04 Demo
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• Arkansas Economic Development Commission
  ...ng economic growth and diversity in the state. The leading industry in the state is aerospace, with $1 billion in exports in 2006. *Laura Stevens, "Aerospace Industry Set to Add 5,000 State Jobs," ''Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,'' Feburary 22, 2008.
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• Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality
  ...Quality''' (ADEQ) is the chief environmental department of Arkansas state government. The current director of ADEQ is [[Teresa Marks]]. *[http://www.adeq.state.ar.us/ Homepage of ADEQ]
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• Old State House and Historic Arkansas Museum
  The '''Old State House and Historic Arkansas Museum''' is a national historic landmark locat ===Old State House===
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• City of Little Rock
  ...County]], Arkansas. The city is the political and commercial center of the state. City government is divided into a number of city departments, citizen services offices, com
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• Dry counties
  ...is the administrator of "wet-dry" statuses in Arkansas. Thirty four of the state's seventy-five counties are considered "wet" by the ABC. According to ABC, ...mbling." By 1820 central Arkansas was so thick with saloons that the state government began taxing them to slow down growth in the business. It didn't work.
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• Old State Capitol
  [[Image:Old-state-house-2.jpg|thumb|300px|Steps of the Old State House. Photo by Phil Frana.]] [[Image:Old-state-tree.JPG|thumb|300px|Interior of Old State House. Photo by Victor Frana.]]
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• Tower Building (arsenal)
  The barracks continued to be used on the site until 1890. In 1892 the U.S. government gave the property to the [[City of Little Rock]], requiring that it be "for The Tower Building remained in an abandoned state until 1942 when it reopened as the [[Arkansas Museum of Natural History and
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• Metrocentre Improvement District
  The '''Metrocentre Improvement District No. 1''' is a state legislated special improvement district comprising 44 blocks of downtown Li ...ve director [[Jimmy Moses]] worked tirelessly with representatives of city government, the [[Arkansas Highway Department]], the [[U.S. Army Corps of Engineers]],
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• Arkansas Governor's Mansion
  ...completion in 1950. Before this time there was no established home for the state Governor. ...ntry Garden]] contains another fountain, a replica of the one at the [[Old State House]]. The entrance garden houses a bronze bust fashioned after [[Bill Cl
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• Arkansas State Capitol
  [[Image:State-capitol-winter.jpg|thumb|300px|The Arkansas State Capitol festooned with holiday lights. Photo by Elizabeth Housley.]] [[Image:State-capitol.jpg|thumb|300px|The Arkansas State Capitol. Photo by Phil Frana.]]
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• Arkansas Justice Building
  ...l Department]], the [[Worker's Compensation Commission]], and the Arkansas State [[Transportation Commission]]. The [[Arkansas Justice Building Commission]] ...Office in 1976, remaining in this position until he became governor of the state in 1980.
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• Winthrop Rockefeller
  ...inthrop Paul Rockefeller Sr.''' was a philanthropist and governor of the [[State of Arkansas]] from 1967 to 1971. ...in this position more than six hundred new industrial plants opened in the state, providing approximately 90,000 new jobs for Arkansas residents. While the
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• University of Arkansas at Little Rock
  The '''University of Arkansas at Little Rock''' (UALR) is a metropolitan state university located in Little Rock, Arkansas. The university's annual enroll ...rship and Training, the School of Mass Communication, and the Institute of Government.
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• Little Rock Downtown Partnership
  ...es." The Partnership has about 225 members, representing local businesses, government units, nonprofits, churches, landowners, colleges, and universities. ...01, was Jim Schimmer. The current director is former Arkansas Secretary of State [[Sharon Priest]].
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• Big Dam Bridge
  The Big Dam Bridge cost $16.5 million to build. The federal and state government contributed $12.5 million to the bridge's construction costs, and [[Pulaski
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• State of Arkansas
  [[Image:Ark-coat-arms.jpg|thumb|300px|Coat of Arms of the State of Arkansas.]] ...d by Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas. The state is commonly divided into six distinct geographical regions: the Mississippi
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• Jim Guy Tucker
  '''Jim Guy Tucker''' is past lieutenant governor and governor of the state of Arkansas. ...im Guy went to Harvard University and graduated with a bachelor of arts in government in 1964. While attending the University of Arkansas Law School, he also ser
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• Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism
  ...and Tourism''' is responsible for tourism and the management of fifty-two state parks. ...mber of visitors had increased to 21 million, with $4.3 billion spent. The state tax revenue generated by such spending totaled some $238 million. Less than
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• Department of Arkansas Heritage
  ...oric Arkansas Museum]], [[Mosaic Templars Cultural Center]], and the [[Old State House]]. [[Category:State government]]
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• Arkansas Game and Fish Commission
  ...s]] government founded in 1944. The commission began creating lakes in the state to meet the renewed interest in recreational fishing in 1951 with the creat [[Category:State government]]
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• MacArthur Park
  ...e site a [[City of Little Rock]] park in perpetuity. In return the federal government received 1,000 acres of land in North Little Rock on Big Rock Mountain wher *Nate Hinkel, "Natural Game Evolves in Natural State," ''Arkansas Business,'' May 29, 2006.
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• Arkansas Supreme Court
  ...Arkansas-supreme-court.JPG|thumb|The Arkansas Supreme Court chamber at the State Capitol. Photo by Phil Frana.]] ...l E. Danielson. The Court is housed in the [[Justice Building]] near the [[State Capitol]].
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• David Martin
  ...s]]). Martin did political polling and political analysis for national and state campaigns. He was an on-air election pollster for ABC, CBS, NBC, and C-SPAN ...artin Corporation]]. Martin Corporation conducted public opinion research, government relations work, and strategic marketing. Clients included EDS, IUSACELL, Lo
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• Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department
  ...on system" for the state. The department is administered by the [[Arkansas State Highway Commission]] with six members appointed to ten-year terms by the [[ *[http://www.arkansashighways.com/ Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department homepage]
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• Arkansas State Highway Commission
  ...was dismantled under Act 3 over the controversial issue of road bonds. The State Highway Commission was re-established by the Mack-Blackwell amendment in 19 ...ighway and Transportation Department, 1913–1992'' (Little Rock: Arkansas State Highway Transportation Department, 1992).
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• Frank D. White
  White was a part of Democrat David Pryor’s cabinet. White left state government in 1977 to become president of Capital Savings and Loan Co. In 1980 White r .... In 1998 White was appointed by Governor Mike Huckabee to the position of State Banking Commissioner. White died on May 21, 2003, of a heart attack in Litt
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• Arkansas Development Finance Authority
  ...-governor [[Bill Clinton]] in 1985 to underwrite public bond issues in the state of Arkansas. The ADFA broke the near-monopoly on public bond issues held by [[Category:State government]]
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• Pulaski County
  '''Pulaski County''' is the most populous county in Arkansas and home of the state capitol at [[Little Rock]]. The county was established on December 15, 1818 ...[[Pyeattstown]]. In 1820 [[Cadron Settlement]] became the official seat of government in the county. That same year the U.S. Post Office established mail service
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• Main Street Mall
  ...nly Main Street reopened to traffic. The old mall is now occupied by state government agencies.
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• Ed Cromwell
  ...on center, parking deck, and public plaza, and link them to the [[Arkansas State House]], [[Camelot Hotel]], renovated [[Robinson Auditorium]], and [[Arkans
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• American Civil War
  ...foundries were enlisted to make grapeshot, and prisoners in the [[Arkansas State Penitentiary]] manufactured such articles as shoes, boots, uniforms, drums, ...islature to disband, and resulting in Governor Rector's establishment of a government in exile in Jackson, Mississippi. Most manufacturing was relocated to more
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• William Russell
  ...erupted when it became clear that Little Rock would become the site of the state capitol. O'Hara had accidentally built his proposed capital site on land in
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• Arkansas Department of Human Services
  The '''Arkansas Department of Human Services''' (DHS) is the state government's largest agency, with 7,500 employees and ten divisions. The ten divisions DHS is headquartered at the [[State Office Building Urban Campus]] along Main Street between Seventh and Eighth
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• Quapaw Indians
  ...oples referred to the Quapaw as the "Akansea," from which the name of the state of Arkansas is derived. The Quapaw Indian Agency is today located in Ottawa ...ittle Rock]] to the United States in preparation for a move of the seat of government to the city from Arkansas Post near the mouth of the Arkansas River. The lo
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• Arkansas Gazette
  ...iver]] to Little Rock. Woodruff remained the official printer of the state government until 1833, when the ''[[Arkansas Advocate]]'' took over the contract.
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• Eastern District of Arkansas
  ...rict for [[Pulaski County]], Arkansas, and much of the eastern part of the state. The District of Arkansas was established on June 15, 1836. It was divided [[Category:Federal government]]
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• Arkansas Power & Light Company
  ...wer & Light''' (AP&L) was a public utility and political powerhouse in the state of Arkansas. The company was instrumental in the rural electrification movement in the state.
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• Project 2000
  ...Little Rock Downtown Partnership]] to replace [[Barton Coliseum]] at the [[State Fairgrounds]] with a downtown multi-use sports arena. ...sis]]. Moses and Allen took their organization's pitch everywhere, to city government offices, to churches and clubs, and into the workrooms other nonprofits. Th
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• UCA Student Government Association
  The '''Student Government Association''' of the [[University of Central Arkansas]], SGA, represents t * Week to achieve "University" status (State College of Arkansas)
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• University of Central Arkansas
  ...nsas State Teachers College (ASTC) in 1925. The school became known as the State College of Arkansas (SCA) in January 1967 to better reflect newer missions ...sidential living and learning communities in Residential Colleges: Hughes, State, STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics), Short/Denny, and Mi
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• Conway
  ====Government==== *[[First State Bank]]
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• Faulkner County
  ====Law, government, and politics==== ...are found in the county, including [[Toad Suck Park]] and [[Woolly Hollow State Park]]. [[Lake Conway]] hosts national fishing tournaments and is the large
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• Real Estate Bank of the State of Arkansas
  ...established to help planters and farmers by providing them with a pool of state-secured credit. ...national economic panic. The panic brought the price of real estate in the state down dramatically, and much of the assets of the bank had been secured by u
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• William E. Woodruff
  ...on a Ramage press. The first issue was dated November 20, 1819. His first government contract was for the ''Laws of the Territory of Arkansas'' published in 182 ...tle Rock in 1821, Woodruff moved his printing operation to the new seat of government.
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• Chester Ashley
  ...r Ashley''' (1791-1848) was a pioneer lawyer and a U.S. Senator from the [[State of Arkansas]]. ...w Madrid certificates]] to Little Rock public lands granted by the federal government to settlers relocated after the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812. Ashley
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• Arkansas Democrat
  ...as Democrat''''' is one of two newspapers published under that name in the state of Arkansas. ...t back the ''Gazette'' and combined the two newspapers into the ''Arkansas State Gazette and Democrat''.
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• Conway County
  ...Educational Services Coop]], [[Morrilton Healthcare Center]], [[Petit Jean State Park]], the [[Wonderview Public School District]], [[Hixson Lumber Sales]], ====Law, government, and politics====
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• Perry County
  '''Perry County''' was established by the [[State of Arkansas]] in 1840 from [[Conway County]] lands south of the [[Arkansas ====Law, government, and politics====
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• Lonoke County
  ====Law, government, and politics==== ...s of interest include the Lonoke County Courthouse Square, [[Toltec Mounds State Park]], the [[Smoke Hold Natural Area]], and [[Joe Hogan Fish Hatchery]].
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• Saline County
  ...ompany town of Bauxite, Arkansas, and shipped the resulting ore out of the state to East St. Louis, Illinois, for further refining into alumina, and eventua ...the county are the [[Bryant Public School District]], [[Wal-Mart]], the [[State of Arkansas]], [[Saline Memorial Hospital]], [[Benton Public School Distric
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• Office of the Secretary of State
  The '''Office of the Secretary of State''' was established under the Arkansas Constitution of 1836. The office cont ==Secretaries of State==
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• Attorney General
  ==Attorneys General of State== [[Category:State government]]
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• Cadron Settlement Park
  ...1820, the first [[General Assembly of Arkansas Territory]] located county government in the town of Cadron. The Assembly approved the construction of a jail and Cadron became a leading candidate for the site of the Arkansas state capitol. On February 22, 1820, [[Joab Hardin]] drafted a bill making Cadron
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• Mount Vernon
  ====Government==== ...Arkansas'' (Bar Association of Arkansas, Texas Bar Association, Louisiana State Bar Association: The Association, 1908), 20.
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• Alexander
  ====Government==== *''Arkansas State Gazetteer and Business Directory'' (Chicago, IL: R.L. Polk Company, 1892).
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• Jacksonville
  ====Government==== *''Arkansas State Gazetteer and Business Directory'' (Chicago, IL: R.L. Polk Company, 1892).
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• Mabelvale
  ====Government==== *''Arkansas State Gazetteer and Business Directory'' (Chicago, IL: R.L. Polk Company, 1892).
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• Arkansas Forestry Commission
  The '''Arkansas Forestry Commission''' (AFC) is an agency of the [[State of Arkansas]]. The ACF provides forest management and protection, rural fir ...ommission was created to identify the largest trees of each species in the state. The trees are compared using the "Bigness Index" of the nonprofit organiza
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• Arkansas Public Service Commission
  ...SC) regulates electric, telephone, gas, and water service and rates in the state, as well as pipeline safety, other consumer services and public hearings, a *[http://www.state.ar.us/psc/ Arkansas Public Service Commission homepage]
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• Marche
  ...y heavy immigration of these industrious and hardy people this part of our state this fall. They are indeed, already arriving in small parties; but about Oc ...as the count's son [[Charles Stanislaw Choinski]], who became a Democratic state legislator for Pulaski County at age 23 in 1882. Sons [[Edward Vladyslaw Ch
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• Arkansas Department of Emergency Management
  [[Category:State government]]
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• Arkansas Department of Information Systems
  [[Category:State government]]
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• Arkansas Department of Labor
  [[Category:State government]]
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• Allen C. Meadors
  ...[[Pi Kappa Alpha]] fraternity. He is a past president of the [[UCA Student Government Association]]. ...Washington University. From 1994 to 1999 he served as CEO and dean at Penn State-Altoona.
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• Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission
  ...re or threatened species in the state. The ANHC also maintains a protected state "System of Natural Areas." The commission is an agency within the [[Departm *Cossatot River State Park-Natural Area
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• Arkansas Department of Higher Education
  .... Beebe Asks Shane Broadway to Serve as Interim Higher Ed Director," ''The State Column,'' February 28, 2011. [[Category:State government]]
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• State Board of Registration for Soil Classifiers
  The '''Arkansas State Board of Registration for Soil Classifiers''' registers and regulates profe *[http://www.arkansas.gov/soilclassifiers/ State Board of Registration for Soil Classifiers homepage]
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• Arkansas State Bureau of Immigration
  ...state agency was to "educate others on the wealth-making properties of our State," and thereby attract new settlers. [[Category:State government]]
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• Territory of Arkansas
  ...the U.S. Congress in 1819, when an area roughly shaped like the present [[State of Arkansas]] was cleaved away from the Territory of Missouri. [[Robert Cri Arkansas Post was originally established as the seat of territorial government. Crittenden convened the first territorial legislature in Arkansas Post, a
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• Little Rock Tornado - October 2, 1894
  ...locks of businesses in the downtown district about three miles east of the government buildings. *"Cyclone at Little Rock; The State Penitentiary and Insane Asylum Wrecked," ''New York Times,'' October 3, 189
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• Arkansas State Sales Tax
  The first '''Arkansas state sales tax''' came into being in 1935. [[Category:State government]]
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• Constitution of 1836
  The '''Arkansas Constitution of 1836''' was the first constitution of the [[State of Arkansas]]. The first Arkansas Constitutional Convention convened on Jan [[Category:State government]]
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• Altus
  '''Altus''' is an [[State of Arkansas|Arkansas]] town best known for its wineries. The town, located In 1984, the federal government declared 12,800 acres around Altus an American Viticulture area.
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• Wineries
  '''Wineries''' have a long and storied history in the state of [[Arkansas]]. ...ree tours and a variety of other tourist attractions. In 1984, the federal government declared 12,800 acres around Altus an American Viticulture area.
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• Arkansas Agriculture Department
  [[Category:State government]]
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• Acxiom Corporation
  ...Arkansas governor [[Winthrop Rockefeller]], who rejuvenated the struggling state Republican Party with a formidable campaign organization and new data proce ...overnor Rockefeller, the victory of Bill Alexander over challengers in the state's 1st Congressional District and in the failed 1969 Democratic presidential
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