Ken Bridges
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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2 weeks ago |
guardonline.com | Ken Bridges
Sen. Robert Johnson was once one of Arkansas’s most powerful politicians. In a time when the nation was pulling itself apart, Johnson became one of those men pulling hardest of all to bring Arkansas out of the Union, a move that led to the Civil War. As a result, his once-promising career was reduced to ashes. Robert Ward Johnson was born in Kentucky in July 1814. His father, Judge Benjamin Johnson, was a wealthy planter. In fact, his family had a lot of powerful political connections.
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2 weeks ago |
jonesborosun.com | Ken Bridges
Sen. Robert Johnson was once one of Arkansas’s most powerful politicians. In a time when the nation was pulling itself apart, Johnson became one of those men pulling hardest of all to bring Arkansas out of the Union, a move that led to the Civil War. As a result, his once-promising career was reduced to ashes. Robert Ward Johnson was born in Kentucky in July 1814. His father, Judge Benjamin Johnson, was a wealthy planter. In fact, his family had a lot of powerful political connections.
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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 :?
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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.
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