List of University of Arkansas People - Alumni - Politics, Law and Military

Politics, Law and Military

• William Vollie Alexander, Jr., BA 1957 - U.S. Representative from Arkansas's 1st district from 1969-1993.
• Beryl Anthony, BA 1961; JD 1963 – U.S. Representative from Arkansas's 4th district from 1979-1993.
• Morris S. Arnold – Senior-status judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, based in Little Rock, former UALR law professor and former Chief Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court
• Mike Beebe – 45th and current Governor of Arkansas
• Edwin Bethune – lawyer and lobbyist; member of the United States House of Representatives from Arkansas's 2nd district from 1979–1985
• Robert Marion Berry, 1964 – U.S. Representative from Arkansas's 1st district from 1997-2011
• John Boozman, 1974 – U.S. Representative from Arkansas's 3rd district since 2001.
• Drew Bowers, 1906 - Arkansas lawyer and Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1926 and 1928 obtained a teacher's certificate from the University of Arkansas.
• Maurice Britt – World War II Medal of Honor recipient, NFL player, Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas
• Charles Hillman Brough - governor of Arkansas from 1917 to 1921 was a UA faculty member.
• Dale Bumpers – 37th Governor of Arkansas and Senator representing Arkansas from 1975-1999.
• Erwin Cain - (Law 1988) - Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives
• Francis Cherry – 35th Governor of Arkansas

• Admiral Vern E. Clark – Chief of Naval Operations, United States Navy
• Jerry Climer – public administration specialist; founder of The Congressional Institute and the Public Governance Institute in Washington, D.C.
• Ken Coon – psychologist, former Arkansas Republican Party state chairman, Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1974, former state Jaycee president
• Donald L. Corbin – Associate Justice for the Arkansas Supreme Court
• William Fadjo Cravens – U.S. Representative from Arkansas's 4th district from 1939-1949.
• Maud Crawford - first woman attorney in Camden, Arkansas; disappeared in 1957 amid international speculation; attended UA from 1911-1912; passed bar exam without attending law school.
• Paul Danielson – Associate Justice for the Arkansas Supreme Court
• Jay Dickey, JD 1963 – U.S. Representative from Arkansas's 4th district from 1993-2001.
• George Washington Donaghey – 22nd Governor of Arkansas
• Clyde T. Ellis, BS '31; JD '34 – U.S. Representative from Arkansas's 3rd district from 1939-1943.
• Brigadier General Daniel B. Fincher – Air Force Judge Advocate and Commander of the Air Force Legal Operations Agency
• John C. Floyd, BS 1879 – U.S. Representative from Arkansas's 3rd district from 1905-1915.
• J. William Fulbright, BA '25 – U.S. Senator, U.S. Representative, creator of the Fulbright Scholar Program and president of the University of Arkansas
• Junius Marion Futrell – 30th Governor of Arkansas
• Ezekiel C. Gathings, JD 1929 – U.S. Representative from Arkansas's 1st district from 1939-1969.
• William S. Goodwin – U.S. Representative from Arkansas's 7th district from 1911-1921.
• Lieutenant General Richard C. Harding – The 16th Judge Advocate General of the Air Force
• John Paul Hammerschmidt, BA '41 - U.S. Representative from Arkansas's 3rd district from 1967-1993.
• Jim Hannah – Chief Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court
• Mike Haridopolos – current member of the Florida Senate
• Kim Hendren – Arkansas state senator, 1979–1983, 2003–present
• George Howard, Jr. – first African-American federal judge in Arkansas
• Asa Hutchinson – U.S. Representative from Arkansas's 3rd district from 1997-2001
• Donna Hutchinson (Master of Education) - member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from Benton County
• Tim Hutchinson – U.S. Senator representing Arkansas from 1997-2003 and U.S. Representative representing Arkansas's 3rd district from 1993-1997
• Neal Sox Johnson (Graduate Studies) - first executive director of the Arkansas Republican Party
• Richard C. Johnston, MS '89 - U.S. Air Force general
• Dan Kyle, MBA '61; PhD '68 – Louisiana legislative auditor (1989-2003)
• Lynn Lowe, B.S. Engineering 1959 – former Republican state chairman and gubernatorial nominee, 1978, and Texarkana farmer
• John Ellis Martineau – 28th Governor of Arkansas
• Ricardo Martinelli – President of the Republic of Panama
• Hayes McClerkin - LLB '59 - Speaker of the Arkansas House, 1969-1970; Texarkana attorney
• Larry Reed McCord – prominent Fort Smith attorney who was vice mayor of Fort Smith from 1977 to 1978, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas from 1978 to 1982, and assistant U.S. Attorney from 1982 until his retirement in 2006.
• Sid McMath – Decorated U.S. Marine, 34th Governor of Arkansas, top personal injury attorney (President, International Academy of Trial Lawyers, 1977–78); built University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, defeated Dixiecrats in Arkansas and opposed Governor Faubus
• Edwin L. Mechem – Republican governor of the State of New Mexico
• Arlie Metheny – United States Army officer at Fort Chaffee and superintendent of three Arkansas school systems
• Harold Montgomery – member of Louisiana State Senate (1960–1968; 1972–1976)
• John Isaac Moore – member of the Arkansas Senate and Acting Governor of the U.S. state of Arkansas
• Catherine Dorris Norrell, BA 1925 – U.S. Representative representing Arkansas's 6th district from 1961-1963 and Director of the United States Department of State from 1965-1969.
• Danny L. Patrick - Bachelor's, Master's, Specialist degrees in Education - member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from Madison County, 1967-1970
• Xenophon Overton Pindall – 21st Governor of Arkansas
• Odell Pollard JD 1950 - Searcy attorney and state Republican chairman, 1966-1970
• David Pryor, BA 1957; JD 1964 – 39th Governor of Arkansas from 1975-1979, U.S. Senator from 1979-1997, and U.S. Representative from Arkansas's 4th district from 1966-1973.

• Mark Pryor, BA 1985; JD 1988 – Current Senator representing Arkansas
• Joe Purcell – 40th Governor of Arkansas, Arkansas Attorney General, and Lieutenant Governor
• Heartsill Ragon, BA 1905 – U.S. Representative from Arkansas's 5th district from 1923-1933.
• Charles C. Reid, BA 1885 – U.S. Representative from Arkansas's 4th district from 1901-1903.
• James B. Reed, JD 1909 – U.S. Representative from Arkansas's former 6th district, 1923-1929.
• Willis Ricketts – Arkansas Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1962; pharmacist and businessman
• Bob C. Riley – 38th Governor of Arkansas
• Joseph Robinson – 23rd Governor of Arkansas and Senator representing Arkansas from 1913-1937 and U.S. Representative from Arkansas's 6th district from 1903-1913.
• David B. Samuel – attorney, state legislator, and city judge in Shreveport, Louisiana
• Rodney Slater – former U.S. Secretary of Transportation
• Lieutenant General Martin R. Steele - United States Marine Corps lieutenant general]
• Mark Swaney – Green Party of Arkansas State Coordintor, Founder of the Arkansas Committee
• Boyd Anderson Tackett, JD 1935 – U.S. Representative from Arkansas's 4th district from 1949-1953.
• Tom Jefferson Terral – 27th Governor of Arkansas
• David D. Terry, JD 1903 – U.S. Representative from Arkansas's 5th district from 1933-1943.
• Ray Thornton, JD 1956 – U.S. Representative from Arkansas's 2nd district from 1991-1997, 4th district from 1973-1979, and Arkansas Attorney General from 1971-1973.
• John N. Tillman, BA 1880; JD 1883 – U.S. Representative from Arkansas's 3rd district from 1945-1967 and President of the University of Arkansas from 1905-1912.
• James William Trimble, BA 1917; JD 1925 – U.S. Representative from Arkansas's 3rd district from 1945-1967.
• Jim Guy Tucker, JD 1968 – 43rd Governor of Arkansas, U.S. Representative from Arkansas's 2nd district from 1977-1979, and Arkansas Attorney General from 1973-1977.
• Elana Wills – Associate Justice for the Arkansas Supreme Court
• Jeff Davis (Arkansas governor), Democratic United States Senator from Arkansas and the 20th Governor of the U.S. state of Arkansas