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==History== In 1864, the [[Camden Expedition]] (part of a larger military operation, the [[Red River Campaign]]), under the command of General [[Frederick Steele]], marched his union troops along the Old Camden Road that passed through Leola after his supplies were depleted and Gen. Kirby's Confederates were on his rear flank as they approached the Jenkins' Ferry on the Saline River. A bloody [[battle of Jenkins' Ferry]] ensued. The Union troops barely crossed the [[Saline River (Ouachita River)|Saline River]], when they did, they burned the pontoon bridge and resulted in a victory in retreated as the Union marched back to Union controlled Little Rock via Prattsville and Old Belfast along the Old Camden Road. In the late summer of 1921, Winters Syndicate drilled down over 1,920 feet exploring for oil in the Leola area. The Belmont Oil Company planned to develop oil fields in Leola, too. However, no oil was discovered.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5O1YAAAAYAAJ&q=leola+arkansas&pg=RA20-PA20|access-date=June 4, 2012|newspaper=Oil and Gas News|date=August 21, 1926|title=Oil Distribution News}}</ref> [[Ray Thornton]] (1928-2016) attended public school in Leola.<ref>{{cite book|last=Onofrio|first=Jan|title=Arkansas Biographical Dictionary|year=1998|publisher=Somerset Publisher, Inc.|pages=277}}</ref> Thornton is a former U.S. Representative, lawyer, [[Arkansas Supreme Court]] justice, university president, and currently is the Public Service Fellow for the University of Arkansas at Little Rock [[William H. Bowen School of Law]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.law.ualr.edu/faculty/fellow.asp |title=UALR Law - Congressman Ray Thornton - University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law |access-date=June 4, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101010121129/http://www.law.ualr.edu/faculty/fellow.asp |archive-date=October 10, 2010 }}</ref> Thornton played "a key role in fashioning the [[articles of impeachment]] against President [[Richard Nixon]] concerning the [[Watergate]] cover-up."<ref name="encyclopediaofarkansas.net">{{Cite web|url=http://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=4170|title = Encyclopedia of Arkansas}}</ref> Thornton was a party in the [[Supreme Court of the United States]] case, ''[[U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton]]'',<ref>514 U.S. 779 (1995); https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/93-1456.ZO.html</ref> that ruled that Arkansas and other states attempts at placing [[term limits]] on members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the [[U.S. Senate]], [[unconstitutional]].<ref name="encyclopediaofarkansas.net"/>
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