Arkansas was a [slave state]? that was admitted as a pair with Michigan in 1837.
The capital of Arkansas is Little Rock. Arkansas is the only state in the US where diamonds? are found naturally.
The eastern Arkansas border is the Mississippi River. Arkansas shares its southern border with Louisiana, its northern border with Missouri and Tennessee, and its western border with Texas and Oklahoma.
The current governor of Arkansas is Mike Huckabee, a Republican. Huckabee, who had been elected lieutenant governor in a 1993 special election, ascended to the governor's office when Governor Jim Guy Tucker, a Democrat, was convicted of felony mail fraud 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 result of Clinton's election to the presidency.
In Arkansas, the lieutenant governor is elected separately from the governor and thus can be from a different political party.
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