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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Texas History Minute: Price Daniel Sr. remembered as one of Texas' most versatile leaders

1 week 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

4 weeks 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'

2 months ago | 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.
Smith praised as a judge

Jan 7, 2025 | thecabin.net | 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.
Bridges: Texan Alfred Gilman's research led to Nobel Prize, inspired scientists

Dec 5, 2024 | lubbockonline.com | Ken Bridges

“Always hire people who do something useful better than you do . . . Life will be much more interesting and you will be much more successful, if you define success as actually getting something done,” once wrote Dr. Alfred Gilman. Gilman, a Dallas-based researcher, employed many students and scientists in his labs as he researched the innermost workings of cells in the body - work that led to the Nobel Prize.

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