Title
Preview
Description
Black and white sketch of Harris Flanagin, including biographical narrative.
Transcription
Called from army camp to governor's chair
Harris Flanagin was born 1817 in New Jersey. He taught school in Pennsylvania and established a private school in Illinois… Admitted to bar 1838 and the following year settled in Greenville, Clark County, Ark.. Later moving to Arkadelphia.. In legislature 1842... Delegate to secession convention in 1861...
Represented Clark County in constitutional convention of 1874.
Harris Flanagin
While Flanagin was at Knoxville Tenn., 1862 in command of the Second Ark. Mounted rifles, he was elected governor of Arkansas at a special election... He was inaugurated Nov. 15, 1862... Just before Steele's army took possession of Little Rock. Governor Flanagin ordered the state records removed to Washington, Ark... The supreme court aslo moved there... Flanagin died Oct. 23, 1874.
War-time capitol at Washington, Ark.
Physical Description
Document, 11" x 14"
Language
English
Identifier
MS.000379, Image 27
Resource Type
Image
Collection
Walter J. Lemke drawings collection: biographical sketches, MS.000379
Publisher
Arkansas State Archives
Contributing Entity
Arkansas State Archives
Recommended Citation
Harris Flanagin, Walter J. Lemke drawings collection: biographical sketches, Arkansas State Archives, Little Rock, Arkansas.
Rights
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Disciplines
United States History
