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Benjamin Charles Henley, usually known as Ben C. Henley (October 7, 1907 - November 7, 1987), was a lawyer and businessman from Harrison in Boone County in northwestern Arkansas, who was the chairman of his state's Republican Party from 1955 to 1962. ==Biography== The website Political Graveyard indicates that Henley was the state party chairman from 1955 to 1958,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Index to Politicians: Hendrickson to Henrotin )〕 but the historian of Arkansas politics, Cathy K. Urwin, writes that Henley gave up the chairmanship in 1962 to William L. Spicer of Fort Smith.〔The Arkansas Republican Party headquarters in Little Rock does not maintain a list of past chairmen and their years in office.〕 Henley is listed in records of the Nixon Library as still the chairman in October 1961, with fellow attorney Roy Mitchell of Hot Springs, the 1956 gubernatorial nominee, who was defeated by Orval Faubus, as the party's first vice-chairman.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=List of Officers, Republican State Central Committees, October 3, 1961 )〕 Henley was the son of Benjamin Harrison Henley and the former Jessie Genoa Willis Smith. He was married to Jewel Ivie Henley (March 21, 1909 - May 26, 1995).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Henley Cemetery, Searcy County, Arkansas )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Moses Bowen Data Page )〕 Henley graduated from the University of Arkansas School of Law in Fayetteville. He tutored an aunt by marriage, Mary Elizabeth Smith Massey (1900-1971), in the study of law. Massey became one of the first women lawyers in Arkansas. In 1934, she ran on the Republican ticket for county/circuit clerk in Henley's native Searcy County, was elected, and served three terms in the position. As an appointed city attorney in 1935, she developed the blueprint for the water city system in Marshall, Arkansas, and campaigned for a bond issue to finance the project.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mary Elizabeth Smith Massey (1900-1971) )〕 As the state party chairman, Henley was a delegate to the 1956 and the 1960 Republican national conventions held in San Francisco and Chicago, respectively.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Index to Politicians: Hendrickson to Henrotin )〕 In 1956, as his party's unsuccessful nominee for the U.S. Senate against the Democrat J. William Fulbright, Henley finished with 17 percent of the vote, well behind his party's presidential nominee, Dwight D. Eisenhower, who still lost Arkansas in the second race against Adlai E. Stevenson, II, of Illinois.〔Arkansas Secretary of State, General election returns, November 6, 1956〕 Henley did not actively campaign against the politically entrenched Fulbright, who instead was out of state working for the Stevenson campaign, which was managed by the Arkansas journalist Harry S. Ashmore.〔''The New York Times'', October 12, 1956〕 Fulbright received 331,679 votes to Henley's 68,016.〔Arkansas Secretary of State, State election returns, November 6, 1956〕 In addition to his legal practice, Henley was part-owner, with later Harrison Mayor Bob Reynolds, of Walters Dry Goods Company at the intersection of Main and Stephenson streets in Harrison, the only local dealer of Levi's jeans. In May 1961, the store was completely flooded by heavy rains, and virtually all of the mud-soaked merchandise was lost. The facility, which carried no flood insurance, was refurbished through a loan from the Small Business Administration. Walters has since passed into history, and another business, Leflers, moved into that location.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Reynolds: "All Hell Broke Loose", May 6, 2007 )〕 Henley died in 1987 at the age of eighty. He and his wife are interred at the Henley Cemetery near St. Joe in Searcy County.〔 Henley's younger brother, J. Smith Henley, was a long-term U.S. district and appeals court judge for whom the federal building in Harrison is named. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ben C. Henley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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