Editing Prattsville, Arkansas (section)

== Notable Prattsvillians ==
[[David Delano Glover]] (January 18, 1868 – April 5, 1952) was born and attended public school in Prattsville. He was a [[U.S. Representative]] from Arkansas. He served six terms from March 4, 1929, to January 3, 1935. He was admitted to the bar in 1910.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=4624 | title=Encyclopedia of Arkansas}}</ref>

[[Robert W. Glover]], David Delano Glover's brother and a [[Missionary Baptist]] pastor, served in both houses of the [[Arkansas Legislature]] (1905–1912) from Sheridan. He lived briefly as a child in Prattsville. In 1909, he introduced the resolution calling for the establishment of four state agricultural colleges.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.astate.edu/a/centennial/centennial-events-gallery/act-100-re-enactment-ceremony/|title=ASU-Jonesboro: Act 100 Re-enactment Ceremony|publisher=astate.edu|access-date=July 5, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110116093319/http://www2.astate.edu/a/centennial/centennial-events-gallery/act-100-re-enactment-ceremony/|archive-date=January 16, 2011}}</ref>

[[Jackson T. Stephens]] (1923–2005), born on a farm near Prattsville during the Great Depression, co-founded Stephens, Inc., the largest trading company outside of [[Wall Street]], located in Little Rock. He donated millions of dollars to worthy causes, including the [[University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences]] campus, the [[Delta Project]], the [[U.S. Naval Academy]], where he graduated with classmate [[Jimmy Carter]],<ref name="arkansasbusiness.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/20/icon_article.asp?articleID=26 |title=Arkansas Business 20th Anniversary |website=www.arkansasbusiness.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040421023225/http://arkansasbusiness.com/20/icon_article.asp?articleID=26 |archive-date=April 21, 2004}}</ref> First Tee of Arkansas, the Prattsville Community Center, and others. His personal art collection, of which he donated a portion of to the [[Arkansas Arts Center]], has been recognized{{citation needed|date=July 2021}} as one of the most important art collections in the country. He served as chairman of the [[Augusta National Golf Club]], overseeing [[The Masters]] golf tournament.  He is interred at Philadelphia Cemetery in Prattsville.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.ruebelfuneralhome.com/archivedobits/2005/Stephens,%20Jack.htm | title=Obituary Notice - Jackson T. "Jack" Stephens}}</ref>

[http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=1773 Wilton "Witt" R. Stephens] (1907–1991) was born in Prattsville and was the older brother of Jack Stephens. He began his career selling belt buckles and Bibles door to door in the late 1920s. During the [[Great Depression]], Witt purchased [[municipal bond]]s for ten cents on the dollar, confident that the bonds would be redeemable under President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]'s [[Reconstruction Finance Corporation]]. He sold the bonds at a profit to make a small fortune in the worst economic climate in American history. He went on to invest in natural gas, oil, and gold mining industries. After World War II, he was known as the "[[kingmaker]]" due to his influential power over the state's political branches. He served two terms in his father's State House seat starting in 1961.<ref name="arkansasbusiness.com"/> The Grant County Museum building is named in his honor. He is interred in Philadelphia Cemetery in Prattsville.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=1773 |title = Encyclopedia of Arkansas}}</ref>

[[Ray Thornton]] (1928–) was a resident of Prattsville and is the nephew of Jack and Witt Stephens. 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> which ruled Arkansas's 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"/>