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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​

| resting_place=Roselawn Cemetery in Little Rock

| resting_place=Roselawn Memorial Park in Little Rock

| occupation=[[Attorney]]; [[Judge]]​​

| occupation=[[Attorney]]; [[Judge]]​​

| residence=Little Rock, Arkansas​​

| residence=Little Rock, Arkansas​​

| 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://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/>

'''Joseph Franklin Holt''', known as '''J. Frank Holt''' (October 22, 1910 &ndash; October 30, 1983),<ref name=ancestry>{{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==

In 1996, Holt resigned from the court to enter an eight-man Democratic primary for governor. Faubus, did not seek a seventh consecutive two-year term. Holt lost by a few thousand votes in a bitter runoff with  Jim Johnson, Holt's former colleague on the state Supreme Court. Holt did not openly promote [[Segregation|integration]], but he said Johnson had a "white supremist" attitude which would provoke "chaos and hatred" in a state still impacted by the desegregation crisis of the late 1950s. "The apostles of discord -- the 'aginners' -- are rallying around him," Holt said on election eve. He claimed the Johnson forces wanted to make Arkansas "a last-ditch battleground in a war against the 20th century." Holt said that Arkansas in order to grow would have to cooperate with the U.S. government and open its doors to industry from outside the state. If nominated and elected, Holt had promised an administration of "honesty, integrity and independence."<ref name=holtdeath>{{cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/10/30/Arkansas-Supreme-Court-Justice-J-Frank-Holt-a-21-year/1509436334400/|title=Arkansas Supreme Court Justice J. Frank Holt, a 21-year veteran, dies at 72|publisher=UPI.com Archives|date=October 30, 1983|accessdate=August 28, 2019}}</ref>

In 1996, Holt resigned from the court to enter an eight-man Democratic primary for governor. Faubus, did not seek a seventh consecutive two-year term. Holt lost by a few thousand votes in a bitter runoff with  Jim Johnson, Holt's former colleague on the state Supreme Court. Holt did not openly promote [[Segregation|integration]], but he said Johnson had a "white supremist" attitude which would provoke "chaos and hatred" in a state still impacted by the desegregation crisis of the late 1950s. "The apostles of discord -- the 'aginners' -- are rallying around him," Holt said on election eve. He claimed the Johnson forces wanted to make Arkansas "a last-ditch battleground in a war against the 20th century." Holt said that Arkansas in order to grow would have to cooperate with the U.S. government and open its doors to industry from outside the state. If nominated and elected, Holt had promised an administration of "honesty, integrity and independence."<ref name=holtdeath>{{cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/10/30/Arkansas-Supreme-Court-Justice-J-Frank-Holt-a-21-year/1509436334400/|title=Arkansas Supreme Court Justice J. Frank Holt, a 21-year veteran, dies at 72|publisher=UPI.com Archives|date=October 30, 1983|accessdate=August 28, 2019}}</ref>

Holt died of kidney failure in a Little Rock hospital eight days after his 73rd birthday. He was reported in "very critical condition" the night before his death on an early Sunday morning. Associate Justice Steele Hays said that Holt had been active on the job until his illness became acute. Services were held at the Immanuel [[Southern Baptist|Baptist]] Church in Little Rock.<ref name=holtdeath/>

Holt died of kidney failure in a Little Rock hospital eight days after his 73rd birthday. He was reported in "very critical condition" the night before his death on an early Sunday morning. Associate Justice Steele Hays said that Holt had been active on the job until his illness became acute. Services were held at the Immanuel [[Southern Baptist|Baptist]] Church in Little Rock.<ref name=holtdeath/> Interment followed at Roselawn Memorial Park in Little Rock.<ref name=ancestry/>

==References==

==References==