Portrait, Groom's - Sid McMath

 
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Portrait, Groom's - Sid McMath
Portrait, Groom's - Sid McMath
Portrait, Groom's - Sid McMath
Portrait, Groom's - Sid McMath

Portrait, Groom's - Sid McMath

Object number2016.050.02
DateOctober 6, 1944
MediumPaper, Ink
Dimensions11 × 8 5/8 in. (27.9 × 21.9 cm)
Credit LineOld State House Museum Collection
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    DescriptionA sepia photograph of Sid McMath in dress uniform taken on October 6, 1944, the day he married Sarah Anne Phillips. Sid is leaning on a table facing straight smiling. His left hand is resting on top of his right hand, and he is wearing a ring on his left hand ring finger.

    Sidney “Sid” Sanders McMath was born June 14, 1912 in Columbia County, Arkansas. McMath won the election for prosecuting attorney for the Eighth Judicial District in 1947, and soon after being sworn in, McMath formally charged Hot Springs Mayor Leo McLaughlin with accessory to election fraud. The next year, 1948, McMath was elected governor. During his four years as governor he was able to add more than 2,000 miles to the state highway system, extended power to all regions of the state, secure funds for the School of Medicine at the University of Arkansas (now the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences), and help to consolidate and integrate schools. The governor’s mansion was completed 1949, and the McMath family became its first residents. He died on October 4, 2003 in Little Rock.
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