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Lafayette, a French ally of the United States in the Revo- lutionary War.
• Sevier County, created on Oct. 17, 1828, from Hempstead County and named after Ambrose Sevier, speaker of the Arkansas territorial House of Representa- tives and one of the state’s first two U.S. senators.
• Washington County, established Oct. 17, 1828, out of (now defunct) Lovely County and named for President George Washington.
• Hot Spring County, created on Nov. 2, 1829, from Clark County. It was named after the naturally occur- ring hot springs within the county, though the specif- ic spring for which it was named is no longer within the county limits, having been subsumed by Garland County in 1873.
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Jefferson County, established on Nov, 2, 1829, from Ar- kansas and Pulaski counties and named after President Tomas Jefferson.
• Monroe County, established Nov. 2, 1829, out of Phil- lips and Arkansas counties and named for President James Monroe.
• Pope County, established Nov. 2, 1829, from Crawford County and named for John Pope, a governor of the former Arkansas Territory.
• Union County, established Nov. 2, 1829, out of Clark and Hempstead counties and named after the petition to form the county, which was given to the legislature in the Spirit of “Union and Unity.”
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Jackson County, established Nov. 5, 1829, from Indepen- dence County and named for President Andrew Jackson.
• Carroll County, created on Nov. 1, 1833, out of Izard County. Carrol County was named after Charles Car- roll (of Carrollton), one of the first to sign the Declara- tion of Independence.
• Mississippi County, established Nov. 1, 1833, from Crittenden County and named after the Mississippi River, which forms its eastern boundary.
• Pike County, established Nov. 1, 1833, from Clark and Hempstead counties and named after Zebulon Pike, the explorer and discoverer of Pikes Peak in Colorado.
• Greene County, created on Nov. 5, 1833, out of Law- rence County and named for Nathanael Greene, a gen- eral in the Revolutionary War.
• Scott County, established Nov. 5, 1833, from Crawford and Pope counties. It was named after Andrew Scott, a judge of the Superior Court of Arkansas Territory and a delegate to the state Constitutional Convention of 1836.
• Van Buren County, established Nov. 11, 1833, from portions of Conway, Izard, and Independence counties
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The first elected Governor of Arkansas was James Conway. The city of Conway, but not the county of Conway, is named after him.
— Photo from the Old State House website. and named after President Martin Van Buren.
Johnson County, created on Nov. 16, 1833, out of Pope County. Johnson County was named for Benjamin Johnson (1784–1849), a territorial judge.
• White County, established Oct. 23, 1835, from In- dependence, Jackson and Pulaski counties and named after Hugh Lawson White, a U.S. Senator from Ten- nessee and Whig Party presidential candidate in 1836.
• Randolph County, established Oct. 29, 1835, out of Lawrence County. It was named for John Randolph, a U.S. congressman from Virginia.
• Saline County, created Nov. 2, 1835, from Indepen- dence and Pulaski counties and named after salt works found within its borders and that supplied salt to all of Arkansas and shipped salt to Tennessee, Louisiana, and east Texas.
• Marion County, established Nov. 3, 1835, out of Iz- ard County and named for Revolutionary War General Francis Marion.
On June 15, 1836, the Territory of Arkansas entered the union as the 25th state, thus becoming the State of Arkan-
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