Augustus Hill Garland

Augustus Hill Garland (June 11, 1832 – January 26, 1899) was an Arkansas lawyer and politician.

In 1874, Garland was elected Governor of Arkansas. He was faced with a number of problems after taking office as Governor including turmoil in the state over threatening groups like the Ku Klux Klan, an ongoing congressional investigation over the Brooks-Baxter confect and the state debt of $17,000,000. With help from the finance board, the debt was significantly lowered in two years time. Garland was a strong supporter of better education. He urged the legislator to establish schools for the blind and deaf, successfully advocated in appointing a new president for the Arkansas Industrial University, today the University of Arkansas, and helped founded the Branch Normal College, today the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, which made education more accessible for African-Americans. Under his administration, he also oversaw the creation of the Arkansas bureau of statistics and bureau of agriculture, mining and manufacturing.

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