Senator Joe T. Robinson

Joseph Taylor Robinson, born in Lonoke in 1872, held the governorship for only 55 days. He took office on January 16, 1913, and resigned on March 8, after the legislature chose him on January 27 for the Senate seat left by Jefferson Davis's death. He was the last senator picked by a legislature rather than by voters. He ran with Al Smith in 1928, became Democratic floor leader and in 1933 helped push the Emergency Banking Act through both houses in seven hours. He died on July 14, 1937, during the fight over Roosevelt's Supreme Court plan.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Plantation Agriculture Museum — 13 mi
  A 1912 brick store turned museum of cotton agriculture beside Horseshoe Lake, with a 1920s Munger gin and exhibits that run from slavery to sharecropping.
• Plum Bayou Mounds Archeological State Park — 13 mi
  The Plum Bayou culture's mound center, A.D. 700 to 1050, formerly Toltec Mounds, with the tallest surviving prehistoric mounds in Arkansas and alignments to the solstices.
• Old State House Museum — 21 mi
  The oldest standing state capitol west of the Mississippi, where lawmakers met from 1836, enslaved people were auctioned in the east wing and Arkansas voted to secede.
• Mosaic Templars Cultural Center — 22 mi
  The state museum of African American history on the site of the Mosaic Templars of America headquarters, a Black fraternal order's 1913 building on West Ninth Street.

More markers nearby

• Eberts Air Field World War I Training Site — steps away
• Action at Ashley's Station — 8.7 mi
• Memphis Military Road — 13 mi
• Confederates at Bayou Meto — 13 mi