Scope and Content Note This collection contains speeches, essays, clippings and other printed ephemera, licenses, certificate, and other materials pertaining to the professional and political career and to the literary and educational interests of the Tennessee-born lawyer from Paragould, Arkansas who was valedictorian of his class in the Law Depart­ment of Arkansas Industrial University (1897); who, as a member and president pro tem of the Arkansas State Senate, served on occasion as acting governor of the state...