Charles Hillman Brough
Johns Hopkins University Charles Hillman Brough (July 9, 1876 – December 26, 1935) was an American politician who served as the 25th Governor of Arkansas from 1917 to 1921.He defeated attorney Wallace Townsend, an Iowa native who later served as the long-term Republican national committeeman from Arkansas.During the Brough administration, numerous reforms were introduced[2][3] such as the founding of the state reformatory for women and a girl's industrial school was opened.Brough served as the director of the Public Information Bureau from 1925 to 1928 and in 1929 as president of Central Baptist College in Conway, Arkansas.Brough died in Washington, D.C. Like many other Arkansas governors, he is interred at the Roselawn Memorial Park Cemetery in the capital city of Little Rock.