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Bryan Sanders is the current first gentleman of Arkansas, assuming the position on January 10, 2023, as the husband of 47th and current Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, with whom he has three children.
Feb 27, 2023 · In 2022, Arkansas voters elected the state’s first female governor, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, making her spouse, Bryan Sanders, the state’s initial first gentleman. Soon after her inauguration, Gov. Sanders established by executive order the National State Initiative and Natural State Advisory Council and appointed her husband its chair.
“First Ladies of Arkansas: Women of Their Times” explores the lives and accomplishments of governors' wives throughout Arkansas’s history and contains the largest exhibition of first ladies’ gowns outside the Smithsonian.
- Frances Watkins Walton Pope
- Mary Kavanaugh Eagle
- Anne Mcmath
- Jeannette Rockefeller
- Gay White
Frances Watkins was married to General Matthew Walton, the founder of Springfield, Kentucky. When Walton died, she remained at Walton Manor as one of the wealthiest people in the state. John Pope was a lawyer and served tenures as both senator and representative for the state of Kentucky. He married Frances Walton on May 1, 1820. After supporting A...
Mary Kavanaugh Eagle was a First Lady who was ahead of her time. Born in Kentucky in 1854, she excelled at school. She married James Phillip Eagle in 1882, and they moved to Arkansas. The couple lived in Lonoke County on a large farm, but James Eagle was a member of the General Assembly, and Mary often accompanied him to Little Rock. She became int...
Anne McMath was First Lady in a time of political reform and postwar improvements. Her husband, Sid Sanders McMath, was elected in 1949. At the time, he was the nation’s youngest governor at 37. Anne was even younger. She stepped into her role at age 29, and while the First Lady, she raised a family of five children, which included giving birth to ...
Jeannette Edris Rockefeller grew up in the spotlight of the public even before she married a Rockefeller. She was born to prominent parents and grandparents in Seattle, Washington, and the press scrutinized her as she grew into a teenager. Before Jeannette married into the Rockefeller family, she traveled the world and married three times. She met ...
Gay White found herself in a position she’d never expected when her husband, Frank White, became governor in 1981. She assisted her brother-in-law on David Pryor’s unsuccessful bid to become the Democratic nominee for governor in 1972. She met Frank White, the head of the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission, when David Pryor won the gubernat...
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The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes . First ladies and gentlemen of Arkansas. B. Ginger Beebe. Betty Bumpers. C. Hillary Clinton's tenures as First Lady of Arkansas. E. Mary Kavanaugh Eagle. H. Janet Huckabee. Categories: Governors of Arkansas.
You can learn about Mary Jane Bradley Conway, Arkansas’s original first lady. Her husband was James Sevier Conway, who took office as Arkansas’s first governor after Arkansas became a state in 1836.
