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| death_date=October 30, 1983 (aged 73)​​
 
| death_date=October 30, 1983 (aged 73)​​
 
| death_place=[[Little Rock]], Arkansas​
 
| death_place=[[Little Rock]], Arkansas​
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| resting_place=Roselawn Cemetery in Little Rock
 
| occupation=[[Attorney]]; [[Judge]]​​
 
| occupation=[[Attorney]]; [[Judge]]​​
 
| residence=Little Rock, Arkansas​​
 
| residence=Little Rock, Arkansas​​
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| religion=[[Southern Baptist]]​​
 
| religion=[[Southern Baptist]]​​
 
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'''Joseph Franklin Holt''', known as '''J. Frank Holt''' (October 22, 1910 &ndash; October 30, 1983),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indis forv=1&dbid=60525&h=11510585&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=EOs175&_phstart=successSource|title=J. Frank Holt|publisher=Ancestry.com|accessdate=July 24, 2019}}</ref> was a justice of the [[Arkansas]] Supreme Court for twenty-one years but is most remembered from having lost a bitter 1966 [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[Governor|gubernatorial]] runoff election to [[Segregation|segregationist]] [[James D. Johnson]]. However, "Justice Jim" Johnson, as his supporters called him, then lost the [[general election]] to [[Moderate Republican]] [[Winthrop Rockefeller]] by a wider margin than had been the  spread in the runoff between Johnson and Holt.<ref name=holtdeath/>
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'''Joseph Franklin Holt''', known as '''J. Frank Holt''' (October 22, 1910 &ndash; October 30, 1983),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ancestry.com/search/?name=Joseph+Franklin_Holt&event=_little+rock-pulaski-arkansas-usa_29109&birth=1910|title=J. Frank Holt|publisher=Ancestry.com|accessdate=July 24, 2019}}</ref> was a justice of the [[Arkansas]] Supreme Court for twenty-one years but is most remembered from having lost a bitter 1966 [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[Governor|gubernatorial]] runoff election to [[Segregation|segregationist]] [[James D. Johnson]]. However, "Justice Jim" Johnson, as his supporters called him, then lost the [[general election]] to [[Moderate Republican]] [[Winthrop Rockefeller]] by a wider margin than had been the  spread in the runoff between Johnson and Holt.<ref name=holtdeath/>
    
==Biography==
 
==Biography==
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