William Kavanaugh Oldham

William Kavanaugh Oldham (20 May 1865-6 May 1938) was the acting Democratic governor of the U.S. state of Arkansas for six days in 1913.

William Kavanaugh Oldham was born in Richmond, Kentucky. He was educated at Central University in Richmond. Oldham moved to Pettus in Lonoke County, Arkansas in 1885. He was elected to the Arkansas House of Representatives in 1907. He served as a member of the Arkansas Senate from 1911 to 1913, and was selected as president of the Senate in 1913.

When Governor Joseph Taylor Robinson resigned from office on 10 March 1913, Oldham became Governor of Arkansas. Oldham served for six days, then turned his office over to the newly elected president of the Senate, Junius Marion Futrell, who himself was only acting governor for four months.

Oldham retired from public service and returned to farming. William K. Oldham died in Pettus, Arkansas and is buried at the Oaklawn Cemetery in Little Rock, Arkansas.

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Arkansas' gross domestic product for 2005 was $87 billion. Its per capita household median income (in current dollars) for 2004 was $35,295, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The state's agriculture outputs are poultry and eggs, soybeans, sorghum, cattle, cotton, rice, hogs, and milk. Its industrial outputs are food processing, electric equipment, fabricated metal products, machinery, paper products, bromine, and vanadium.

Several global companies are headquartered in the northwest corner of Arkansas, including Wal-Mart (the world's largest public corporation by revenue in 2007), J.B. Hunt and Tyson Foods. This area of the state has experienced an economic boom since the 1970s as a result.

In recent years, automobile parts manufacturers have opened factories in eastern Arkansas to support auto plants in other states. Additionally, the city of Conway is the site of a school bus factory.

Tourism is also very important to the Arkansas economy; the official state nickname "The Natural State" was originally created (as "Arkansas Is A Natural") for state tourism advertising in the 1970s, and is still regularly used to this day.

The Arkansas State Senate is the upper branch of the Arkansas General Assembly. The Senate consists of 35 members, each representing a district with about 76,000 people. Service in the state legislature is part-time, and most state senators have full-time jobs during the rest of the year. The 35-member Senate consists of eight Republicans and 27 Democrats. There are six women and four African-Americans.

Lonoke County is a U.S. county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. Its population was 52,828 at the 2000 United States Census. The county seat is at Lonoke, while Cabot is the largest city in the county. Lonoke County is included in the Little Rock-North Little Rock, Arkansas Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is also an alcohol prohibition or dry county.

Lonoke County is Arkansas's 70th county, formed on 16 April 1873. Its name originates from a "lone oak" tree that stood on the site of the present county seat; the red oak tree was used as a local landmark by a railroad surveyor. Among Arkansas's 75 counties, it is the only one to share its name with its county seat.

The county is the location of the Camp Nelson Confederate Cemetery, Toltec Mounds State Park, and the Joe Hogan Fish Hatchery - one of the world's largest working fish hatcheries.

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