Harvey Parnell
| Harvey Parnell | |
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| 29th Governor of Arkansas | |
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In office March 4, 1928 – January 10, 1933 |
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| Lieutenant |
William Lee Cazort Lawrence Elery Wilson |
| Preceded by | John Ellis Martineau |
| Succeeded by | Junius Marion Futrell |
| 1st Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas | |
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In office 1927–1928 |
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| Governor | John Ellis Martineau |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | William Lee Cazort |
| Member of the Arkansas Senate | |
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In office 1923-1925 |
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| Member of the Arkansas House of Representatives | |
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In office 1919-1921 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
February 28, 1880 Cleveland County Arkansas, USA |
| Died | January 16, 1936 (aged 55) Little Rock, Pulaski County Arkansas |
| Resting place | Roselawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Little Rock, Arkansas |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Profession | Farmer |
Harvey Parnell (February 28, 1880 – January 16, 1936) was the 29th governor of Arkansas, and served from 1928 to 1933.
Parnell was born in Orlando in Cleveland County in southern Arkansas. Parnell attended public schools and graduated from Warren High School in Warren, Arkansas. After graduation, he worked as a bookkeeper and store clerk and farmed in Chicot County in southeastern Arkansas.
Elected in 1918, Parnell was a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1919 to 1921. In 1922, Parnell was elected to the Arkansas Senate and served from 1923 to 1925.
In 1927, he assumed the post of Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas and the next year was elevated to the office of governor when John Ellis Martineau resigned to become a federal judge. In 1928, Parnell won election to the office in his own right. In the general election he defeated, 77.3 to 22.7 percent, the attorney Drew Bowers, a Republican originally from Pocahontas in Randolph County in northeastern Arkansas. Bowers had also been the GOP gubernatorial nominee in 1926, when he was defeated by Martineau by a similar margin.
In 1930, Parnell was elected to a second term. In both 1928 and 1930, Parnell defeated future U.S. Representative Brooks Hays of Little Rock in the Democratic primary. In 1966, Hays ran again for governor but lost the primary to James D. Johnson, a former associate justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court, who was then defeated by Winthrop Rockefeller. In the 1930 general election, Parnell defeated the Republican J. O. Livesay, a district judge from Foreman in Little River County in southwestern Arkansas. Livesay had lost a Republican race for the United States House of Representatives in 1912 from Arkansas's 4th congressional district.
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