(The information below is an excerpt, transcribed from BIOGRAPHICAL & HISTORICAL MEMOIRS OF SOUTHERN ARKANSAS. The Goodspeed Publishing Co. Chicago, Nashville & St. Louis. 1890. Other items from this book will be included from time to time in future messages. They should be of interest to those of us who have roots in Desha County.--LR) STATE LEGISLATORS FOR DESHA COUNTY, ARKANSAS, TO 1890 Third State Legislature, Nov. 2 to Dec. 28, 1840 Senate: J. Smith (Arkansas, Jefferson and Desha Cos.) House: S. H. Davis (Desha Co.) Fourth State Legislature, 1842-43 Senate: J. Yell (Arkansas, Jefferson and Desha Cos.) House: Charles A. Stewart (Desha Co.) Fifth State Legislature, 1844-45 Senate: J. Yell (Arkansas, Jefferson and Desha Cos.) House: William H. Sutton (Desha Co.) Sixth State Legislature, 1846 Senate: R. C. Byrd (Arkansas, Jefferson and Desha Cos.) House: Isaiah Halcomb (Desha Co.) Seventh State Legislature, 1848-49 Senate: R. C. Byrd (Arkansas, Jefferson and Desha Cos.) House: Thompson B. Flournoy (Desha Co.) Eighth State Legislature, 1850-51 Senate: N. B. Burrow (Arkansas, Jefferson and Desha Cos.) House: Thompson B. Flournoy (Desha Co.) Ninth State Legislature, 1852-53 Senate: N. B. Burrow (Arkansas, Jefferson and Desha Cos.) House: Shelby W. Wilson (Desha Co.) Tenth State Legislature, 1854-55 Senate: A. H. Ferguson (Arkansas, Jefferson and Desha Cos.) House: Solon B. Jones (Desha Co.) Eleventh State Legislature, 1856-57 Senate: A. H. Ferguson (Arkansas, Jefferson and Desha Cos.) House: John Patterson (Desha Co.) Twelfth State Legislature, 1858-59 Senate: Thomas Fletcher (Arkansas, Jefferson and Desha Cos.) House: J. P. Johnson (Desha Co.) Thirteenth State Legislature, 1860-61 Senate: Thomas Fletcher (Arkansas, Jefferson and Desha Cos.) House: James P. Clayton Fourteenth State Legislature, 1862 Senate: Thomas Fletcher (Arkansas, Jefferson and Desha Cos.) House: Alexander Harding (Desha Co.) Fifteenth State Legislature, 1864-65 Senate: I. C. Mills (Arkansas, Jefferson and Desha Cos.) House: (not listed) State Confederate Legislature, Washington, Ark., Sept. and Oct. 1864 Senate: T. Fletcher (Arkansas, Jefferson and Desha Cos.) House: Alexander Harding (Desha Co.) Sixteenth State Legislature, 1866-67 Senate: W. M. Galloway (Arkansas, Jefferson and Desha Cos.) House: W. C. Weatherford (Desha Co.) Seventeenth State Legislature, 1868-69 (Representing Ashley, Chicot, Drew and Desha Cos.) Senate: W. Harbison and J. W. Mason House: N. M. Newell, C. F. Simms, R. S. Curry, D. S. Wells and Z. H. Maness Eighteenth State Legislature, 1871 (Representing Ashley, Chicot, Drew and Desha Cos.) Senate: J. W. Mason and William Harbison House: A. J. Robinson, C. W. Preddy, H. Marr, E. A. Fulton, J. W. Harris and John Webb Nineteenth State Legislature, 1873 (Representing Ashley, Chicot, Drew, Desha and Lincoln Cos.) Senate: S. A. Duke and S. H. Halland House: S. W. McLeod, John C. Kollins, X. J. Pindall, O. F. Parish, J. T. W. Tillar and J. E. Joslyn. Extraordinary Session of State Legislature, May 1874 (Representing Ashley, Chicot, Drew, Desha and Lincoln Cos.) Senate: S. A. Duke and S. H. Halland (Representing Ashley, Chicot, Drew and Desha Cos.) House: J. T. W. Tillar, L. L. Johnson, A. W. Files and X. J. Pindall Twentieth State Legislature, 1874-75 Senate: X. J. Pindall (Chicot and Desha Cos.) House: J. A. Robinson (Desha Co.) Twenty-First State Legislature, 1877 Senate: X. J. Pindall (Chicot and Desha Cos.) House: S. J. Peoples Twenty-Second State Legislature, 1879 Senate: Charles H. Carlton (Chicot and Desha Cos.) House: L. A. Pindall (Desha Co.) Twenty-Third State Legislature, 1881 Senate: C. H. Carlton (Chicot and Desha Cos.) House: L. A. Pindall (Desha Co.) Twenty-Fourth State Legislature, 1883 Senate: Henry Thane (Chicot and Desha Cos.) House: W. B. Peterson (Desha Co.) Twenty-Fifth State Legislature, 1885 Senate: Henry Thane (Chicot and Desha Cos.) House: I. G. Bailey (Desha Co.) Twenty-Sixth State Legislature, 1887 and in the last session Senate: W. H. Logan (Chicot and Desha Cos.) House: G. H. Joslyn (Desha Co.)