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'''Wallace Townsend''' (August 20, 1882 - January 7, 1979) was an [[Iowa]]-born figure in the development of the 20th century [[Arkansas]] [[Republican Party]]. From 1928 until 1961, he was his party's [[Republican National Committee|national committeeman]], having been succeeded by [[Winthrop Rockefeller]], who was elected five years thereafter as the state's first Republican governor since [[Reconstruction]].
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Wallace Townsend
| image =
| image_size =
| caption =
| office=[[Republican National Committee|Republican National Committeeman]]<br> for [[Arkansas]]
| term_start=1928
| term_end=1961
| preceded =
| succeeded=[[Winthrop Rockefeller]]
| birth_date=August 20, 1882
| birth_place=DeWitt, Clinton Count<br>
[[Iowa]], USA
| death_date=January 7, 1979
| death_place=[[Little Rock]], [[Arkansas]]
| resting_place=
| occupation=[[Lawyer]]; [[Educator]]
| residence= Little Rock, Arkansas
| religion=
| spouse=(1) Bess Voss Townsend (married 1914-1958, her death)<br>
(2) Floy Smith Plunkett Townsend (married 1962-1979, his death)
| children=Two daughters
| alma_mater=Hendrix College<br>
William H. Bowen School of Law at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock
| footnotes=
}}
'''Wallace Townsend''' (August 20, 1882 – January 7, 1979) was an [[Iowa]]-born figure in the development of the 20th century [[Arkansas]] [[Republican Party]]. From 1928 until 1961, he was his party's [[Republican National Committee|national committeeman]], having been succeeded by [[Winthrop Rockefeller]], who was elected five years thereafter as the state's first Republican [[governor]] since [[Reconstruction]].
==Personal life==
==Personal life==
Townsend was active in many organizations, such as the Little Rock [[Chamber of Commerce]] and the Little Rock Boys Club. In 1914, he married the former Bess Voss, with whom he had two daughters. She died in 1958, and four years later, he wed Floy Smith Plunkett. Townsend continued to practice law until 1974, when he retired at the age of ninety-two. He died some five years later in Little Rock.<ref>" 'Mr. Republican' Dies at Age 96," ''Arkansas Gazette'', January 8, 1979, pp. 1A, 3A</ref>
Townsend was active in many organizations, such as the Little Rock [[Chamber of Commerce]] and the Little Rock Boys Club. In 1914, he married the former Bess Voss, with whom he had two daughters. She died in 1958, and four years later, he wed Floy Smith Plunkett, who died in 1981, two years after his passing. She was the widow of Ralph Elbert Plunkett (1890-1954), whom she married in [[Denver]], [[Colorado]] in 1914. Floy and her first husband are interred at Roselawn Memorial Park in Little Rock.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Townsend&GSfn=Floy&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=4&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=173964608&df=all&|title=Floy Smith Townsend|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=September 23, 2017}}</ref>
Townsend's papers are housed at Special Collections of the Ottenheimer Library at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Townsend's papers are housed at Special Collections of the Ottenheimer Library at his alma mater, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
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