Ken Bridges

El Dorado

History Professor, South Arkansas Community College, author of History Minute column, writer, member at St. Paul UMC, proud husband and proud father of 6!

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Ford learned importance of education at young age

2 weeks ago | guardonline.com | Ken Bridges

‘The mind once enlightened can never again become dark,” wrote Thomas Paine generations ago. Progress in education has been an important feature of the development of the United States as it steadily moved to become an economic and scientific leader. Arkansas faced a difficult transition as it attempted to develop its school system in the twentieth century. One of the key leaders in Arkansas education was Arch Ford, the former state education commissioner.
Congressman James Hinds

4 weeks ago | jonesborosun.com | Ken Bridges

James Hinds had come to Arkansas with high hopes after the Civil War. However, the congressman only found tragedy as he was assassinated in 1868. Hinds was born in Hebron, New York, in 1833, the youngest of six children. He attended college in Albany before moving to St. Louis, Missouri, in the early 1850s. He moved back east to Ohio where he earned a law degree from Cincinnati Law College, one of the few law schools in the nation in the 1850s. kAmqJ `gde[ 96 925 D6EE=65 :?
Texas History Minute: Price Daniel Sr. remembered as one of Texas' most versatile leaders

1 month ago | bluebonnetnews.com | Ken Bridges

By Ken Bridges, Texas History MinutePrice Daniel, Sr., had a distinguished career serving Texas and the nation. By 1952, he had already served as an army officer, Texas House Speaker, and attorney general. At the age of 42 in 1952, his political career was only beginning with his election to the U. S. Senate. With his inauguration in January 1953, he jumped into his new position.
Texas History Minute -- Price Daniel, part 1

1 month ago | ntxe-news.com | Ken Bridges

Price Daniel was one of the few men in Texas History to serve in all three branches of state government – as governor, state legislator, and state Supreme Court justice. He was known for his sense of right and wrong, but his stands were sometimes controversial. In a political career that spanned decades, Daniel became one of the most well-known figures in the state. Born Marion Price Daniel, Sr., in October 1910, he was the son of a rancher.
Our first Lieutenant Governor

2 months ago | jonesborosun.com | Ken Bridges

Calvin C. Bliss was one of the thousands of Arkansans caught in the chaos of the Civil War and Reconstruction, but he came to Arkansas as an educator and became the state’s first lieutenant governor. Bliss was born in Vermont in 1823. As a young man, he attended a theological college in New York but left with a group of students after the college forbade abolitionist activities. He married a young schoolteacher, Caroline Eastman, in 1854, and the two left for Arkansas.
The man behind 'Black Wall Street'

Feb 6, 2025 | paragoulddailypress.com | Ken Bridges

Ottaway W. Gurley was an Arkansas man with a dream of success. The son of slaves, he would become a multi-millionaire and one of the richest African-Americans in the country. He would also help create the prosperous Greenwood District in Tulsa, known as “Black Wall Street,” until it all came crashing down in 1921. Gurley was born on Christmas Day 1868 to freed slaves in Huntsville, Alabama. Shortly afterward, the family moved to Pine Bluff where Gurley grew up.
Did you know Arkansas has an official dinosaur?

Jan 16, 2025 | jonesborosun.com | Ken Bridges

Dinosaurs have been extinct for many millions of years, but they still fuel the imaginations of many people today. Dinosaurs came in all shapes and sizes. Some flew, others swam, and others were massive creatures weighing thousands of pounds. They dominated the landscape between 240 million and 65 million years ago. Dinosaurs even lived in ancient Arkansas, but it was an Arkansas very different from today. kAm%96 7:CDE 5:?@D2FC 3@?6 H2D 5:D4@G6C65 :? `eff 3J D4:6?E:DE #@36CE !=@E :?
Did you know Arkansas has an official dinosaur?

Jan 15, 2025 | paragoulddailypress.com | Ken Bridges

Dinosaurs have been extinct for many millions of years, but they still fuel the imaginations of many people today. Dinosaurs came in all shapes and sizes. Some flew, others swam, and others were massive creatures weighing thousands of pounds. They dominated the landscape between 240 million and 65 million years ago. Dinosaurs even lived in ancient Arkansas, but it was an Arkansas very different from today. The first dinosaur bone was discovered in 1677 by scientist Robert Plot in England.
What a judge ought to be

Jan 8, 2025 | news-journal.com | Ken Bridges |Ken Bridges

George Rose Smith was praised as “an example of what a judge ought to be” by one legal scholar. In his 37 years on the Arkansas Supreme Court, he never failed to make an impact or earn the respect of his peers. As a judge, writer, and prankster, Smith certainly had one of the most interesting lives of any state supreme court justice. Smith was born into a distinguished Arkansas family in Little Rock in 1911. His father was a noted Presbyterian minister.
What a judge ought to be

Jan 7, 2025 | jonesborosun.com | Ken Bridges

George Rose Smith was praised as “an example of what a judge ought to be” by one legal scholar. In his 37 years on the Arkansas Supreme Court, he never failed to make an impact or earn the respect of his peers. As a judge, writer, and prankster, Smith certainly had one of the most interesting lives of any state supreme court justice. Smith was born into a distinguished Arkansas family in Little Rock in 1911. His father was a noted Presbyterian minister.

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