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Richard C. Byrd

Richard C. Byrd

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Richard C. Byrd
Acting Governor of Arkansas
In office
January 10, 1849 – April 19, 1849
Preceded byThomas S.Drew
as Governor of Arkansas
Succeeded byJohn S. Roane
as Governor of Arkansas
Member of the Arkansas Senate
In office
1840
1842
1846
1848
Member of the Arkansas House of Representatives
In office
1836
Personal details
Born1805 (1805)
Hawkins County, Tennessee
Died (aged 48–49)
Jefferson County, Arkansas
Political partyDemocratic

Richard C. Byrd (1805 – June 1, 1854) was an American politician and Acting Governor of the State of Arkansas in 1849.

Biography[edit]

Byrd was born in 1805 in Hawkins County, Tennessee. Byrd was a merchant and farmer, and moved to Arkansas in 1826.

Political career[edit]

Byrd became auditor for the Arkansas Territory and served in that position from 1829 to 1831. He served in the Territorial Legislature in 1833. He served as a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives in 1836, and in the Arkansas Senate in 1840, 1842, 1846, and 1848. Byrd had an unsuccessful gubernatorial run in 1844.[1]

When Governor Thomas Stevenson Drew resigned from office on January 10, 1849, Byrd was president of the Senate and became acting governor. Byrd left the office on April 19, 1849, and returned to his mercantile store in Jefferson County, Arkansas.

Death[edit]

Byrd died at his home in Jefferson County following a lengthy illness.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Arkansas Governor Richard C. Byrd". National Governors Association. Retrieved August 10, 2012.

External links[edit]

Political offices
Preceded by
Thomas Stevenson Drew 		Governor of Arkansas
Acting
1849 		Succeeded by
John Selden Roane
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