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Lonoke County, Arkansas Court House
Lonoke,
Lonoke County, Arkansas
N34.47.137 W091.53.987
Lonoke County
Senator Joe T. Robinson
Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson, Arkansas outstanding statesman was born six
miles
northwest of this place in 1872. He lived in Lonoke and practiced
law; was elected to Congress and served ten years; moved to Little Rock in 1912;
served as Governor in 1913 until he resigned to qualify as United States Senator
in the same year. Served as chairman of the minority conference 1922 until
1933, when he became chairman of the Democratic Majority in the Senate, which he still holds in this centennial year of 1936.
- Arkansas History
Commission 1936.
Lonoke Landmarks
Joseph Taylor Robinson Home - 204 NE
Front Street.
Practiced law in Lonoke 1893 - 1912.
U.S. Congressman 1902 - 1913
Governor of Arkansas - January -
March 1913
U.S. Senator 1913 - 1937
Lonoke was named for a lone oak tree,
surveyor's landmark for Memphis - Little Rock
Railroad - 1858. The tree
grew at 106 McKinley.
Eberts Field, U.S. Signal Corps
Aviation Training School on 640 acres Hwy 89 donated
by citizens, was named for
Lt. M. M. Eberts, aviator killed in 1917.
Lonoke Bicentennial 1976.
Confederate Memorial
Erected by the T.C. Hindman Chapter,
U.D.C.
Lonoke, Arkansas
Lonoke County commends the
faithfulness of her sons to future generations.
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