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ANNE McMATH PAPERS

Research Files
Manuscript Collection MC 957

ANNE PHILLIPS McMATH

Anne Phillips McMath was born December 20, 1920, in Slate Spring, Mississippi. She graduated from the local high school and continued with her studies for another two years at Mississippi State College for Women. She met her future husband, Sidney Sanders McMath, in Washington, D.C., while working as a congressional secretary on Capitol Hill. They were married on October 6, 1944, and on January 10, 1949, Sid McMath became the thirty-fourth Governor of Arkansas. Anne McMath played the role of first lady from 1949 to 1953. Since leaving public life she has been active in various civic organizations.

THE COLLECTION

Anne Phillips McMath, former first lady of Arkansas, donated her papers to Special Collections on July 14, 1989.

The collection includes research files created by Anne McMath while writing her biographical sketches of the first ladies of Arkansas. These were published as First Ladies of Arkansas: Women of Their Times. Little Rock: August House, 1989.

Processed by Vera Ekechukwu, September 1995. Special Collections Division, University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Contents of Collection (4 containers)

This series contains research material accumulated during the author's work on her book First Ladies of Arkansas: Women of Their Times. Included are the original drafts of the narrative, handwritten notes, correspondence pertaining to the author's research, questionnaires, newspaper and magazine clippings (as well as photocopies), and other printed material; photographs and slides. Also included is the incomplete manuscript of the book.
Box 1
  1. Correspondence, 1987, 1990.
  2. Drafts.
  3. Drafts.
Box 2
  1. Adkins, Estelle Elise Smith (1941-1945).
  2. Bailey, Margaret Bristol (1937-1941).
  3. Berry, Elizabeth Quails (1883-1885).
  4. Brough, Anne Wade Roark (1917-1921).
  5. Bumpers, Betty Flanagin (1971-1975).
  6. Cherry, Margaret Frierson (1953-1955).
  7. Clarke, Sallie Warren Moore Wooten (1895-1897).
  8. Clayton, Adeline McGraw (1868-1872).
  9. Clinton, Hillary Rodham (1979-1981, 1983-1993).
  10. Conway, Mary Jane Bradley (1836-1840).
  11. Davis, Ina McKenzie (1901-1907).
  12. Donaghey, Louvenia Wallace (1909-1913).
  13. Eagle, Mary Kavanaugh Oldham (1889-1893).
  14. Faubus, Celia Alta Haskins (1955-1967).
  15. Flanagin, Martha Elizabeth Nash (1862-1865).
Box 3
  1. Fulton, Matilda Nowland (1835-1836).
  2. Futrell, Tera Ann Smith (1933-1937).
  3. Garland, Sarah Virginia (1874-1877).
  4. Hays, Ida Virginia Yarbrough (1913-1917).
  5. Hughes, Ann Eliza Blakemore (1885-1889).
  6. Jones, Margaret Parkin Hadley (1897-1901).
  7. Laney, Lucille Kirtley (1945-1949).
  8. Little, Elizabeth Jane Irwin (1907-1909).
  9. Martineau, Mabel Irwin Thomas (1927-1928).
  10. McMath, Sara Anne Phillips (1949-1953).
  11. McRae, Amelia Ann White (1921-1925).
  12. Miller, Susan E. Bevins (1877-1881).
  13. Murphy, Angelina Lockhart (1864-1968).
  14. Parnell, Mabel Winston (1928-1933).
  15. Pryor, Barbara Jean Lunsford (1975-1979).
  16. Rector, Flora Linde (1860-1862).
  17. Robinson, Ewilda Gertrude Miller (1913).
  18. Rockefeller, Jeannette E. (1967-1971).
  19. Terral, Eula Terrell (1925-1927).
  20. White, Gay Daniels (1981-1983).
Box 4
  1. Manuscript (1 of 3).
  2. Manuscript (2 of 3).
  3. Manuscript (3 of 3).
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