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Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the attorney general of Arkansas from 1977 to 1979 and as the governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981, and again from 1983 to 1992. His centrist "Third Way" political philosophy became known as Clintonism, which dominated his presidency and the succeeding decades of Democratic Party history.

Hillary Clinton
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat. She was the 67th United States secretary of state in the administration of Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, a U.S. senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009, and the first lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001 as the wife of Bill Clinton. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the party's nominee in the 2016 presidential election, becoming the first woman to win a presidential nomination by a major U.S. political party and the only woman to win the popular vote for U.S. president. Clinton lost the United States Electoral College vote to Republican Party nominee Donald Trump. She is the only first lady of the United States to have run for elected office.

John Grisham
American writer (born 1955)
Chelsea Clinton
American author and global health advocate

Mary Steenburgen
Mary Nell Steenburgen is an American actress, comedian, singer, and songwriter. After studying at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse in the 1970s, she made her professional acting debut in the Western comedy film Goin' South (1978). Steenburgen went on to earn critical acclaim for her role in Time After Time (1979) and Jonathan Demme's comedy-drama film Melvin and Howard (1980), for which she received the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Wesley Clark
United States Army general and 2004 Democratic Party presidential candidate

Albert Pike
American author, poet, orator, editor, lawyer, jurist and Confederate States Army general Associate justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court, Freemason (1809–1891)
Ken Starr
American judge and educational administrator (1946–2022)
Hattie Caraway
United States Senator from Arkansas and first woman elected to the U.S. Senate, first woman to preside over the senate, first woman to chair a senate committee, and first woman to preside over a senate hearing (1878–1950)
Joycelyn Elders
American pediatrician, public health administrator, and former Surgeon General of the United States
Vince Foster
American lawyer (1945-1993)
Daisy Bates
American civil rights activist (1914–1999)
John Pope
American politician (1770–1845)
John Wesley Snyder
American businessman (1895–1985)
Harris Flanagin
governor of Arkansas from 1862 to 1864, and in exile from 1864 to 1865 (1817–1874)
Frank D. White
American politician in Arkansas (1933–2003)
Simon P. Hughes Jr.
15th governor of Arkansas (1830-1906)

Kaneaster Hodges Jr.
American politician (1938–2022)
Joe Purcell
13th Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas (1923–1987)
Lloyd Spencer
American politician (1893-1981)
William Marmaduke Kavanaugh
American politician (1866-1915)
James D. Walker
American politician (1830-1906)
John N. Heiskell
American politician (1872-1972)
Bob C. Riley
American politician (1924–1994)

Mark Stodola
American politician

Betty Bumpers
American activist
Molly Rawn
American business executive and politician (born 1982)
Bill Halter
American politician and activist
Virginia Clinton Kelley
mother of U.S. president Bill Clinton (1923–1994)
James D. Johnson
American judge and lawyer (1924–2010)
Clay Ford
American politician
Webster Hubbell
American lawyer, politician, and felon
Nathan Green Gordon
American lawyer, politician, and decorated naval aviator (1916-2008)
Elias Cornelius Boudinot
Cherokee politician (1835-1890)
Nathan Fletcher
American politician