| Homer Martin Adkins |
Article Index for Homer |
Limousines in Homer |
Website Links For Homer |
Information AboutHomer Martin Adkins |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT HOMER MARTIN ADKINS | |
| 1890 births | |
| adkins, homer martin | |
| 1964 deaths | |
| american military personnel of world war i | |
| governors of arkansas | |
| united states army officers | |
|
Adkins served in the United States Army during World War I as a Captain in the Medical Corps. Adkins served one term as sheriff of Pulaski County, Arkansas and was the collector of internal revenue from 1933 to 1940. In 1940, he was elected Governor Of Arkansas . The Adkins administration presided over a doubling of the surplus in the state's treasury. His administration focused on highway construction and financing, electrification, worker's compensation. Adkins was reelected in 1942. In 1948, he was appointed as administrator of the Arkansas Employment Security Division which is responsible for worker's unemployment insurance and other worker's claims. In 1956, he established a public-relations firm in Little Rock. Homer Adkins died in 1964 in Malvern, Arkansas and is buried at the Roselawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Little Rock, Arkansas . On the edge of his hometown of Jacksonville, a neighborhood elementary school today is named for Adkins. The school is slated to convert to a pre-kindergarten format beginning in the 2006-2007 school year.
|
|
|