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| name   = Wallace Townsend

| name=Wallace Townsend

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| term_start=1928  

| term_start=1928  

| term_end=1961

| term_end=1961

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| succeeded=[[Winthrop Rockefeller]]

| succeeded=[[Winthrop Rockefeller]]

| birth_date=August 20, 1882

| birth_date=August 20, 1882

==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, 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 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 continued to practice law until 1974, when he retired at the age of ninety-two and died five years later in Little Rock.<ref>" 'Mr. Republican' Dies at Age 96," ''Arkansas Gazette'', January 8, 1979, pp. 1A, 3A.</ref>

 

Townsend's papers are housed at Special Collections of the Ottenheimer Library at his alma mater, 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.

==References==

==References==