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| ARTICLES RELATED TO Arkansas - Geography | | | |  Arkansas - Geography: Encyclopedia II - Arkansas - Law and governmentThe 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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| | | | | Arkansas - Geography: Encyclopedia II - Arkansas - Law and government The current governor of Arkansas is Mike Huckabee, a Republican. Huckabee, who had been elected lieutenant governor in a 1993 special election, became governor 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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| | | | | Arkansas - Geography: Encyclopedia II - Arkansas - Demographics 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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| | | | | Arkansas - Geography: Encyclopedia II - Arkansas - Economy 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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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
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