Editing Fort Smith, Arkansas (section)

===Politicians, lawyers, and judges===
* [[John Boozman]] (born 1950), [[United States Senator]] and former [[United States Representative]] for [[Arkansas's 3rd congressional district]]; Northside High School graduate and football player for the [[Arkansas Razorbacks]]; brother of Fay Boozman.
* [[Virgil Bozeman]] (1912–2007), Illinois state representative and lawyer<ref>'Illinois Blue Book 1949-1950,' Biographical Sketch of Virgil Bozeman, pg. 199</ref>
* [[Charles Winchester Breedlove]], [[Los Angeles City Council]] member, 1933–45, born in Fort Smith.
* [[Clifton R. Breckinridge]] (1846–1932), a Democratic alderman, congressman, diplomat, businessman and veteran of the [[Confederate States of America]] Army and Navy.
* [[William Lee Cazort]] (1887–1969), former [[Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas]], graduated from high school in Fort Smith.
* [[W. H. H. Clayton]] (1840–1920), soldier, attorney, judge, justice of the Central District Court in Indian Territory; lived in Fort Smith 1873–1893, while serving under Judge Isaac Parker, before moving to McAlester, Oklahoma; buried in Fort Smith National Cemetery.
* [[Mark Darr]] (born 1973), former Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas, was born in Fort Smith.
* [[Jake Files]] (born 1972), state senator from Fort Smith since 2011; former member of the Arkansas House of Representatives.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/16268/jake-files#.UplRqBXnYfQ|title=Jake Files' Biography|publisher=votesmart.org|access-date=November 29, 2013}}</ref> 
* [[William Meade Fishback]] (1831–1903) was a Democratic Governor of Arkansas and selected to be a member of the United States Senate but was not allowed to serve.
* [[Charlene Fite]] (born 1950), educator in Fort Smith and Republican state representative from Crawford and Washington counties.
* [[B. G. Hendrix]] (1922–2020), former state representative for Fort Smith.
* [[Asa Hutchinson]] (born 1950), Republican Governor of Arkansas from 2015 to 2023, former U.S. representative, Drug Enforcement Administration head, Under Secretary of Homeland Security, U.S. Senate nominee in 1986, and Arkansas gubernatorial nominee in 2006.
* [[Carol Kelso]] (born 1945), former member of the [[Wisconsin State Assembly]] and Executive of [[Brown County, Wisconsin]].
* [[Marilyn Lloyd]] (1929–2018), Democratic Congresswoman from [[Tennessee's 3rd congressional district]], 1975–1995; was born in Fort Smith
* [[George E. Nowotny]] (born 1932), Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives for Sebastian County from 1967 to 1972; resident of [[Tulsa, Oklahoma]].
* [[Carolyn Pollan]] (born 1937), former member of Arkansas House of Representatives, longest-serving Republican and longest-serving woman member of the chamber.
* [[Isaac C. Parker]] (1838–1896), the "Hanging Judge".
* [[William L. Spicer]] (1918–1991), chairman of the [[Arkansas Republican Party]] from 1962 to 1964, who quarreled with [[Winthrop Rockefeller]]; owner of a chain of [[drive-in theater]]s.