Republican Party of Arkansas

Republican Party of Arkansas
Chairperson	Doyle Webb
Senate leader	Eddie Joe Williams
House leader	Ken Bragg
Ideology	Conservatism Fiscal conservatism Social conservatism
National affiliation	Republican Party
Seats in the Upper House	24 / 35
Seats in the Lower House	64 / 100
Website
www.arkansasgop.org

The Republican Party of Arkansas (RPA) is the affiliate of the United States Republican Party in Arkansas.

The party is led by state chairman Doyle Webb, who was re-elected to serve a third term in December 2012. Webb, an attorney and former State Senator, was once chief of staff for the late Lieutenant Governor Winthrop Paul Rockefeller

The RPA's headquarters is on West 6th Street in downtown Little Rock. Ashley Wells serves as Finance Director. Alex Rountree serves as Political Director. Sarah Jo Reynolds serves as the Executive Director. Stephen Houserman serves as Communications Director.

The United States Republican Party, or GOP, is the second oldest currently existing political party in the United States after its older rival, the Democratic Party.

Both parties exist in all fifty states. Historically, prior to the late 20th century, the Republican Party was much weaker than the Democrats in the former Confederate States of America, including Arkansas.

The Arkansas party did not hire its first paid executive director until 1970, when businessman Neal Sox Johnson, then of Nashville, Arkansas, assumed the position in the last year of Winthrop Rockefeller second term as governor of Arkansas. Johnson help the position until early in 1973, when he left Arkansas to take a high position with the former Farmers Home Administration in Washington, D.C..

Between 2010 and 2014, similar to what took place in neighboring Oklahoma, Arkansas Republicans won all four U.S. House seats, both U.S. Senate seats, all of the statewide offices, and supermajority control of both chambers of the Arkansas General Assembly.

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