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Mark Pryor (D) Arkansas (pronounced /ˈɑ(r)k(ə)nˌsɑː/ or /ˈɑ(r)k(ə)nˌsɔ/) is a southern state in the United States. The population according to the 2000 census was 2,673,400. Its U.S. postal abbreviation is AR, and its Associated Press abbreviation is Ark. It was admitted as the 25th state of the United States in 1836. Arkansas - History. The early French explorers of the state ...

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Arkansas - Centers of Research. Arkansas Cherokee Indian Research Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center website National Center for Toxicological Research website Arkansas - Colleges and universities. University of Arkansas System University of Arkansas University of Arkansas - Fort Smith University of Arkansas at Little Rock University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences University of Arkansas ...

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The early French explorers of the state gave it its name, which is probably a phonetic spelling for the French word for "downriver" people, a reference to the Quapaw people and the river along which they settled. Other Native American nations living in present-day Arkansas were Caddo, Cherokee and Osage Nations. On June 15, 1836, Arkansas became the 25th state of the United States as a slave state. Arkansas refused to joinn the Confederate States of America until after Abraham Lincoln called for troops to invade South Carolina. It sec ...

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As of 2003, the state's population was 2,725,714 according to Census Bureau estimates. 48.8% is male, and 51.2% is female. Racially, Arkansas is: 78.6% White non-Hispanic 15.7% Black 3.2% Hispanic 0.8% Asian 0.7% Native American 1.3% Mixed race The five largest ancestry groups in the state are: American (15.9%), African American (15.7%), Irish (9.5%), German (9.3%), English (7.9%). People of American ancestry have a strong presence in the northwester ...

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The state's total gross state product for 2003 was $76 billion. Its Per Capita Personal Income for 2003 was $24,384, 50th in the nation. The state's agriculture outputs are poultry and eggs, soybeans, sorghum, cattle, cotton, rice, hogs, and milk. Its industrial outputs are food processing, electric equipment, fabricated metal products, machinery, paper products, bromine, and vanadium. In recent years, automobile parts manufacturers have opened factories in eastern Arkansas to support auto plants in other states (though Ark ...

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The current governor of Arkansas is Mike Huckabee, a Republican. Mike Huckabee, who had been elected lieutenant governor in a 1993 special election, ascended to the governor's office in 1996 when Governor Jim Guy Tucker, a Democrat, was convicted as part of the Whitewater Scandal. This led to a state "Constitutional crisis" when Tucker refused to give up the governor's office for a short period of time, because the Arkansas Constitution does not allow a convicted felon to be governor of the state. Tucker had been lieutenant governor under Bill Clinton and had become governor as a ...

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See: List of Arkansas counties, List of cities in Arkansas, List of Arkansas townships. The capital of Arkansas is Little Rock. Arkansas is the only state in the US where diamonds are found naturally (near Murfreesboro, Arkansas). The eastern border for most of Arkansas is the Mississippi River except in Clay and Greene counties where the St. Francis River forms the western boundary of the Missouri Bootheel. Arkansas shares its southern border with Louisiana, its northern border with Missouri, its eastern border with Ten ...

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