Secession Convention Delegates

Posted by Bryan Howerton on July 19, 2001 at 08:26:35:

Someone recently asked about the delegates to the 1861 Arkansas Secession Convention, saying they couldn't find it anywhere on the web. So I thought I'd post it here, in case anyone else is interested.

A couple of remarks -- Isaac Murphy, delegate from Madison County, cast the only dissenting vote on secession. There was no delegate from Craighead County. Thirty of the delegates served in a military capacity during the war (home guards and Confederate regiments).

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1861 Arkansas Secession Convention.

President - David Walker, of Fayetteville.
Secretary - Elias Cornelius Boudinot, of Fort Smith.

Delegates --

Adams, Alexander (Izard County)
Adams, Charles W (Phillips County)
Austin, Thomas Fletcher (Marion County)
Baber, Milton Dyer (Lawrence County)
Batson, Felix Ives (Johnson County)
Bolinger, Henry H (Madison County)
Bradley, Thomas H (Crittenden County)
Bush, J W (Greene County)
Bussey, Hezekiah Jr (Union County)
Campbell, John (Searcy County)
Carrigan, Alfred Holt (Hempstead County)
Clingman, Alexander Michael (Montgomery County)
Cochran, Samuel W (Fulton County)
Crenshaw, James W (Randolph County)
Cryer, Wiley P (Lafayette County)
Cypert, Jesse Newton (White County)
Desha, Franklin W (Independence County)
Dinsmore, Alexander W (Benton County)
Dodson, Isaiah (Newton County)
Dollarhide, James S (Sevier County)
Echols, Philip Henry (Calhoun County)
Fishback, William Meade (Sebastian County)
Flanagin, Harris (Clark County)
Floyd, William B (Johnson County)
Fort, Urban Elias (Independence County)
Fuller, Robert T (Dallas County)
Garland, Augustus Hill (Pulaski County)
Garland, Rufus King (Hempstead County)
Gould, Josiah (Bradley County)
Grace, William Porter (Jefferson County)
Griffith, Samuel Lewis (Sebastian County)
Gunter, Thomas Montague (Washington County)
Hanly, Thomas Burton (Phillips County)
Hawkins, Benjamin S (Sevier County)
Hawkins, Marcus Lafayette (Ashley County)
Hill, Levin D (Perry County)
Hilliard, Isaac (Chicot County)
Hobbs, Burr Hamilton (Carroll County)
Hobson, Anson W (Ouachita County)
Jackson, H (Benton County)
Jester, Joseph (Hot Spring County)
Johnson, Jilson P (Desha County)
Kelley, Samuel (Pike County)
Kennard, Michael Shelby (Independence County)
Lanier, Felix R (Mississippi County)
Laughinghouse, G W (St. Francis County)
Mansfield, William W (Franklin County)
Mayo, William M (Monroe County)
Murphy, Isaac (Madison County)
Parks, John P A (Washington County)
Patterson, J H (Jackson County)
Patterson, James Henry (Van Buren County)
Ray, Archibald (Polk County)
Rhodes, Joel A (Drew County)
Robinson, Samuel (Lawrence County)
Shelton, J W (St. Francis County)
Slemons, William Ferguson (Drew County)
Smith, Jabez Mitchell (Saline County)
Smoot, George Parker (Columbia County)
Spivey, William H (Yell County)
Stallings, Samuel J (Conway County)
Stillwell, Joseph (Pulaski County)
Stirman, James H (Washington County)
Stout, William (Pope County)
Tatum, William Vardeman (Union County)
Thomason, Hugh French (Crawford County)
Totten, Benjamin C (Prairie County)
Totten, James L (Arkansas County)
Turner, Jesse (Crawford County)
Walker, David (Washington County)
Walker, W T (Scott County)
Wallace, Isaiah C (Columbia County)
Watkins, William Wirt (Carroll County)
Williams, H W (Poinsett County)
Yell, James (Jefferson County)

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