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A lawyer, banker, and politician, Thomas Chipman McRae represented the Third Congressional District for eighteen years and served as governor from 1921 to 1925. During his governorship, he fiercely fought to revise the tax system to adequately fund Arkansas’s dilapidated highway and educational systems.
See also:
Donovan, Timothy P., Willard B. Gatewood Jr., and Jeannie M. Whayne, eds. The Governors of Arkansas: Essays in Political Biography. 2d ed. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1995.
Ledbetter, Calvin R. "Thomas C. McRae: National Forests, Education, Highways, and Brickhouse v. Hill." The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 59, no. 1 (2000): 1-29. Accessed August 3, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/40027967.
Thomas Chipman McRae Papers. Special Collections. University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville, Arkansas.
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