Elisha Baxter (September 1, 1827 – May 31, 1899) was an American businessman and politician who served as the 10th governor of Arkansas from 1873 to 1874...
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to take control of the state from Elisha Baxter, who was the Republican governor. The victor in the end was the Baxter administration, also known as the...
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Hawaii Elisha W. Baily (1821–1904), American politician and physician from Pennsylvania Elisha Baxter (1827-1899), tenth Governor of Arkansas Elisha Cooke...
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Mountain Home, its largest city and county seat. The county is named for Elisha Baxter, the tenth governor of Arkansas. It is coterminal with the Mountain...
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(August 25, 2022). "Brooks-Baxter War". Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Retrieved February 3, 2023. Sobel 1978, p. 73. "Elisha Baxter". National Governors Association...
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Republican nominee Elisha Baxter defeated Liberal Republican nominee Joseph Brooks. The results of the election led to the Brooks-Baxter War, in which Brooks...
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W. Baxter (1857–1918), American politician and lawyer Dorian Baxter, Canadian Anglican priest Edward Felix Baxter, British soldier Elisha Baxter, American...
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The victor in the end was the "Minstrel" faction led by carpetbagger Elisha Baxter over the "Brindle Tail" faction led by Joseph Brooks, which included...
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outbreak of the Brooks-Baxter War, a conflict over the governorship of Arkansas, Dorsey initially supported Governor Elisha Baxter. However, he, along with...
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Justice Baxter may refer to: Elisha Baxter (1827–1899), chief justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas Marvin R. Baxter (born 1940), associate justice...
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Governor Baxter may refer to: Elisha Baxter (1827–1899), 10th Governor of Arkansas George W. Baxter (1855–1929), territorial governor of Wyoming Percival...
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Business Arkansas Highway 106 Arkansas Highway 233 Arkansas Highway 394 Elisha Baxter, 13th governor of Arkansas Jack Critcher, local and state politician...
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939.08 sq mi (2,432 km2) Baxter County 005 Mountain Home March 24, 1873 Fulton, Izard, Marion, and Searcy counties Elisha Baxter (1827–1899), a governor...
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the Brooks-Baxter War, Garland became a primary strategist for Governor Elisha Baxter and served as deputy secretary of state. Though Baxter and Joseph...
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political conflict known as the Brooks-Baxter War, Pike was one of the lawyers to speak on behalf of Elisha Baxter. Pike died on April 2, 1891, at the Scottish...
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elected US Senator from Arkansas by the State Legislature along with Elisha Baxter, however he was not allowed to take his seat in Congress due to disenfranchisement...
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Liberal Republican (Brindletail) gubernatorial nominee against Republican Elisha Baxter. There were state-wide fraud and voting irregularities on both sides...
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Stephen Duncan Newton Knight William L. Sharkey North Carolina Elisha Baxter John Baxter Henry H. Bell John Gibbon William Woods Holden Alexander H. Jones...
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Joseph Brooks (politician) (category People of the Brooks–Baxter War)
overthrow Republican governor Elisha Baxter. The Spring 1874 coup d'état attempt came to be known as the Brooks–Baxter War. Joseph Brooks was born in...
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Governor before election Elisha Baxter Republican Elected Governor Augustus H. Garland Democratic...
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Ozra Amander Hadley (category People of the Brooks–Baxter War)
Senate in 1871. In 1871, as part of a political compromise (see: Brooks-Baxter War), Hadley was appointed acting governor after the resignation of his...
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Elisha Baxter. During the Brooks-Baxter War, a notable episode during the Reconstruction era in Arkansas, White aligned himself with Governor Baxter....
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Pro Tempore during a special session called by governor Elisha Baxter during the Brooks Baxter War in 1874 and the following session when Tankersley refused...
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the 1874 Extraordinary Arkansas General Assembly called by Governor Elisha Baxter, but is listed as not present by the Arkansas Secretary of State. Priest...
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17-year-old David Owen Dodd, who was convicted of spying. Fishback and Elisha Baxter were selected to represent Arkansas in the United States Senate in 1864...
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the congregation, and its mortgage was paid off in the 1930s by Dr. Elisha Baxter Jones, in whose honor the church was thereafter named. The building...
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traitor and compromised his effectiveness. Arkansas's two senators Elisha Baxter and William Fishback were denied seating in Washington by the Radical...
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56th, 57th, 112th and 113th United States Colored Troops. Colonel Elisha Baxter Adjutant General Albert W. Bishop Brigadier General Powell F. Clayton...
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Robert C. Newton (category People of the Brooks–Baxter War)
arrested Elisha Baxter for treason during the American Civil War and brought him to Little Rock, the state capital. After the war, when Baxter was governor...
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gubernatorial candidate Joseph Brooks launched a coup against Arkansas governor Elisha Baxter, setting off a violent struggle between the state's two Republican Party...
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