who was the first governor of the arkansas territory?
The Arkansas Gazette moved with the government and became the unofficial voice of the territory and its source of news. Public lands went on sale in 1822, but as late as 1840 more than half of territorial taxpayers were squatting on the abundant acreage remaining available. William Miller of New Hampshire was the first governor of Arkansas Territory. By the time he arrived, however, Robert Crittenden of Kentucky, the territorial secretary, had made a number of appointments and held elections for a legislature and a delegate to Congress.