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Arkansas Governors and United States Senators by John L. (John Lewis) Ferguson
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engineers, United States Army, 1794. Captain, 1799. Resigned from
army, 1803. Married Elizabeth Carter Shippen, 1803; three children.

Accepted new commission as colonel of artillery, 1812. Brigadier
general, 1813; major general, 1814. Honorably discharged, 1815.
Governor of Arkansas from 1825 until his death in 1828.


3. John Pope, 1829-1835

Lawyer. Born in Virginia, 1770. Married Ann Henry Christian, c.1795.
Married Elizabeth Johnson, 1810; two children. Married Frances Watkins
Walton, 1820.

State senator, Kentucky, 1798-1799, 1825-1829. Member, Kentucky House
of Representatives, 1802, 1806-1807, 1823-1825. United States senator
from Kentucky, 1807-1813. Professor of law, Transylvania University,
1813-1816. Secretary of State of Kentucky, 1816-1819. Governor of
Arkansas, 1829-1835. Congressman from Kentucky, 1837-1843. Died 1845.


4. William S. Fulton, 1835-1836

Lawyer. Born in Maryland, 1795. Graduated from Baltimore College, 1813.
Moved to Tennessee after serving in War of 1812. Admitted to bar, 1817.
Military secretary to General Andrew Jackson in Florida campaign of
1818. Moved to Alabama, 1820. Married Matilda Nowland, 1823; four
children.

Elected judge of county court, Florence, Alabama, 1822. Secretary
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