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John Selden Roane

ROANE, John Selden, governor of Arkansas, born in Wilson county, Tennessee, 8 January, 1817; died in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, 7 April, 1867. He was graduated at Cumberland college, Princeton, Kentucky, and served in the legislature of Arkansas as speaker in 1844. Participating in the Mexican war as lieutenant-colonel of Colonel Archibald Yell's Arkansas cavalry, he served with gallantry at Buena Vista, and commanded the regiment after Colonel Yell was killed, being made colonel on 28 February, 1847. From 1848 till 1852 he was governor of Arkansas. Governor Roane served in the civil war, being appointed brigadier-general in the provisional Confederate army on 20 March, 1862, commanding the district of Little Rock, Arkansas.

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