and France. Commissioned lieutenant in artillerists and
engineers, United States Army, 1794. Captain, 1799. Resigned from
army, 1803. Married Elizabeth Carter Shippen, 1803; three children.

Accepted new commission as colonel of artillery, 1812. Brigadier
general, 1813; major general, 1814. Honorably discharged, 1815.
Governor of Arkansas from 1825 until his death in 1828.

3. John Pope, 1829-1835

Lawyer. Born in Virginia, 1770. Married Ann Henry Christian, c.1795.
Married Elizabeth Johnson, 1810; two children. Married Frances Watkins
Walton, 1820.

State senator, Kentucky, 1798-1799, 1825-1829. Member, Kentucky House
of Representatives, 1802, 1806-1807, 1823-1825. United States senator
from Kentucky, 1807-1813. Professor of law, Transylvania University,
1813-1816. Secretary of State of Kentucky, 1816-1819. Governor of
Arkansas, 1829-1835. Congressman from Kentucky, 1837-1843. Died 1845.

4. William S. Fulton, 1835-1836

Lawyer. Born in Maryland, 1795. Graduated from Baltimore College, 1813.
Moved to Tennessee after serving in War of 1812. Admitted to bar, 1817.
Military secretary to General Andrew Jackson in Florida campaign of
1818. Moved to Alabama, 1820. Married Matilda Nowland, 1823; four
children.

Elected judge of county court, Florence, Alabama, 1822. Secretary
of Territory of Arkansas, 1829-1835. Last governor of Territory of
Arkansas, 1835-1836. United States senator from Arkansas, 1836-1844.
Died 1844.

GOVERNORS OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS

Arkansas was admitted to the Union as the twenty-fifth state on June
15, 1836. From 1836 until 1874, governors were elected for four-year
terms. During the remainder of our history the term of office has been
two years.

1. James S. Conway, 1836-1840

Planter, surveyor, Democrat. Born in Tennessee, 1798. Came to Arkansas
from Missouri, 1820. Married Mary Jane Bradley, 1826; six children.

First surveyor-general of Arkansas Territory. Inaugurated as first
governor of the State of Arkansas, September 13, 1836. In 1840 retired
to "Walnut Hill," his plantation in Lafayette County. Died 1855.

2. Archibald Yell, 1840-1844

Lawyer, Democrat. Born in Tennessee, 1797 or 1799. Served in War of
1812, and in Seminole War of 1818. Married Mary Scott, 1821; two
children. Married Ann Jordan Moore, 1827; four children. Married Maria
Ficklin, 1836.

Member, Tennessee House of Representatives, 1827. Came to Arkansas
1831. Receiver at federal land office in Li