The Springdale news., 1916-12-01
Honors For Fayetteville Men.

political preferment The article follows
The appointment Of Chancellor T. H.
Humphreys to the Supreme Court Of Ark
ansas has added to the pardonable pride
that Fayetteville takes in the distinction
of having Governor of the State and
Representative in Congress chosen from
It's citizens; and that pride is justified by
the assurance that the three men so sig
nally honored will in turn confer honor
on the State. Representation in the execu
tive and judicial departments of the State
and in the legislative department of the
United States is not often given to one
small town in remote corner of the
State, but this instance is a repetition of
the honor conferred on the town in the
past when citizens were called to the
same high position.
Judge Humphreys is the fourth resid-
ent OF Fayetteville to be called to the Su-
preme Bench Of the State Judge David
Walker was Associate Justice of the Su-
preme Court from 1S47 to 1855, and from
1874 to 1878, and was Chief Justice from
1866 to 1867. He resigned shortly before
the expiration of his first term and also
before the end of his third term and was
removed from office of Chief Justice by
the military authorities of the United
States at the beginning Of reconstruction.
Judge Williamson S. Oldham was a
Judge of the Supreme Court from 1916 to
1858. He removed to Texas short time
after the expiration of his term, and was
one of the Judges Of the Supreme Court
there, and represented the State in the
Southern Confederacy
Judge Lafayette Gregg was Judge Of
tie Supreme Court from 1867 to 1871,
during the turbulent period following the
war between the states.
During the six years from 1917 to Is
50, when the Supreme Court was compos-
ed Of three Judges, two of them, Judges
Walker and Oldham were from Fayette-
vile
All four of these Judges had represen-
ted Washington County in the General
Assembly Of the state before their eleVa-
ton to the Bench. Judge Oldham was
Speaker of the House of Representatives
in 1882, and Judge Humphreys was the
Speaker in 1901 and Judge Gregg was
member of the House in 1852.
Fayetteville has furnished two COVER
nors of Arkansas-Archibald Yell, the
second governor of the state held the of
flee from 1910 to 1914, and DR.. Charles
H. Brough has just been elected to the
same exalted position.
Isaac Murphy was a citizen of Madison
County when he was made governor in
1864, but was a resident of Fayetteville
for many years before he went to Madi-
son County.
He was one of the representatives Of
Washington county in the General As
sembly in 1S4S Three members of the
House at that session afterwards became
Governors of the state-Isaac Murphy
of Washington, Henry NJ. Rector Of Sa-
line, and Harris Flanagan of Clark, and
three were afterwards Presidents Of the
Senate and Acting Governors for time
-Jno K. Hampton, f. c. Byrd and John
Williamson
Fayetteville has also been generous in
its contribution of Governors to other
states. James Throckmorton, who was
Governor Of Texas shortly after the war
between the states and c. n. Haskell, the
first Governor Of Oklahoma, were both
residents Of Fayetteville, and julius Gun
ter, who was elected Governor of Colo
RADIO at the recent election, was born and
grew TO manhood here
-Four Governors of the state were edu-
Gated in Washington county, Governor J.
S. Little at Cane Hill, and Jeff Davis, Geo.
W Donaghey and Joe T. Robinson at the
University.
Other residents of Fayetteville who
have held State offices were l.. B.