death_date children birth_date residence term_end alma_mater death_place preceded term_start spouse name occupation resting_place succeeded birth_place party office religion article_title
14 may 1991 catherine r. `` cathie '' matthews 26 october 1915 little rock , arkansas 1955 university of virginia little rock , arkansas sam m. wassell 1951 catherine couch remmel pratt cates remmel , sr. . insurance agent oakland cemetery in little rock woodrow wilson mann little rock , pulaski county arkansas , usa republican mayor of little rock , arkansas united methodist pratt c. remmel

pratt c. remmel

pratt cates remmel , sr. -lrb- october 26 , 1915 - may 14 , 1991 -rrb- , was the only 20th century republican elected on a partisan ballot to have served as mayor of little rock , arkansas .
he was elected to the first of two two-year terms in 1951 , was reelected in 1953 , and then defeated in 1955 by the democrat woodrow wilson mann , who like remmel was in the insurance business .
in 1954 , remmel was the unsuccessful republican gubernatorial candidate against the democrat orval eugene faubus , who won the first of his six consecutive two-year terms as the state 's highest constitutional officer .
remmel 's 37 percent of the general election vote was the greatest then attained by a republican candidate since reconstruction .
in some ways , he paved the beginning of a long route that would bring fellow republican winthrop rockefeller to the governorship in 1967 .
rockefeller moved into the state only a year before remmel ran for governor .
