Joseph Edward Walls materials [manuscript] 1898-2005

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Libraries. Special Collections.

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Walls, Joseph Edward, 1908-2007.

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Joseph Edward Walls was born in Tomberlin, Lonoke County, Arkansas on April 16, 1908, the son of Andrew Jackson and Ida Smith Walls. The elder Walls was a Lonoke County pioneer and elected Sheriff in 1898. He served in that position until 1904, and subsequently as County Judge from 1904-1914. Through marriage, the Walls family is related to Joseph Taylor Robinson, former Arkansas governor, senator, and Congressman, and former U.S. Federal Judge Elsijane Trimble Roy. Andrew Jackson Walls' first w...

Walls family

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Roy, Elsijane Trimble, 1916-2007

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Elsijane Trimble Roy was born in Lonoke on April 2, 1916, the daughter of Elsie Jane Walls and Thomas Clark Trimble III. Her father and her grandfather, Thomas Clark Trimble II were attorneys and practiced with Seanator Joseph T. Robinson. She enrolled at the University of Arkansas in 1934, majored in law, graduating in 1939. She was admitted to the state bar in 1939. In April 1966, she became the state's first woman judge, occupying the position of justice for Arkansas's Sixth District court th...

Robinson, Joseph Taylor, 1872-1937

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Joseph T. Robinson The "Fightingest" Man in the U.S. Senate He never lost a battle. From schoolyard fights to clashes in the Senate, Joseph T. Robinson defeated all challengers. In the end, it was not a person, but a bill that struck down the first Democratic Senate majority leader Robinson had a fatal heart attack during his campaign to pass President Franklin Roosevelt's controversial "court packing" plan in 1937. Colleagues from both parties mourned his passing, while newspaper editoria...