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{{Infobox officeholder
{{Infobox officeholder
| name=James Ray "Jim" Caldwell
| name=James Ray "Jim" Caldwell
| birth_place=Dardanelle, Yell County<br>[[Arkansas]], USA
| birth_place=Dardanelle, Yell County<br>[[Arkansas]], USA
| birth_date=October 29, 1936
| birth_date=October 29, 1936
| preceded=Russell Elrod
| preceded=Russell Elrod
| succeeded=[[Kim Hendren]]
| succeeded=[[Kim Hendren]]
| office2=Chairman of [[Arkansas]] [[Republican Party]]
| office2=Chairman of the<br> [[Arkansas]] [[Republican Party]]
| term_start2=March 1973
| term_start2=March 1973
| term_end2=December 1974
| term_end2=December 1974
| occupation=Minister; after-dinner speaker
| occupation=Minister; after-dinner speaker
| religion=[[Church of Christ]]
| religion=[[Church of Christ]]
| spouse=LaFerne Muller Caldwell
| spouse=Thelma LaFerne Muller Caldwell
| children=Four daughters:<br>
| children=Four daughters:<br>
Vicki Jones<br>
Vicki Jones<br>
The Arkansas GOP found it difficult to function without Rockefeller's financial asupport. As time passed, one might conclude that the state GOP had made only minimal progress in its political mission though some of the “good government” programs that it had championed were adopted under Rockefeller and in subsequent administrations beginning with his immediate successor, [[Dale Bumpers]]. In time, the GOP moved beyond Rockefeller's legacy to reflect the pattern of Republican growth in most other southern states, more conservative and less moderate than Rockefeller and Caldwell had championed in Arkansas.<ref>Blair and Barth, ''Arkansas Politics and Government'', pp. 71-72</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.arktimes.com/arkansas/wr-the-progressive/Content?oid=2177478|title=Ernest Clifton Dumas, "WR, the progressive"|publisher=arktimes.com|accessdate=June 3, 2012}}</ref>
The Arkansas GOP found it difficult to function without Rockefeller's financial asupport. As time passed, one might conclude that the state GOP had made only minimal progress in its political mission though some of the “good government” programs that it had championed were adopted under Rockefeller and in subsequent administrations beginning with his immediate successor, [[Dale Bumpers]]. In time, the GOP moved beyond Rockefeller's legacy to reflect the pattern of Republican growth in most other southern states, more conservative and less moderate than Rockefeller and Caldwell had championed in Arkansas.<ref>Blair and Barth, ''Arkansas Politics and Government'', pp. 71-72</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.arktimes.com/arkansas/wr-the-progressive/Content?oid=2177478|title=Ernest Clifton Dumas, "WR, the progressive"|publisher=arktimes.com|accessdate=June 3, 2012}}</ref>
Caldwell died in Tulsa at the age of eighty-one after a long fight with [[Parkinson's disease]]. His services were held at the Crosstown Church of Christ in Tulsa. He is interred at Bentonville Cemetery in Benton County, Arkansas. In addition to his widow, the former LaFerne Muller (1937-2020), Caldwell was survived by four daughters and their husbands, Vicki Jones (Gary) of Tulsa, Sherri Garner (Reece) of Seligman, Missouri, Patti Reese (Jack) of Tulsa, and Kelli Keltner (Robert) of Aubrey, [[Texas]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.arkansasonline.com/obituaries/2020/jan/08/laferne-caldwell-2020-01-08/#:~:text=Tulsa%2C%20OK%2C%201937%20-%202020%20LaFerne%20Caldwell%2C%2082%2C,and%20graduated%20from%20Central%20High%20School%20in%201955|title=Obituary for LaFerne Caldwell|publisher=Arkansas on-line|date=January 8, 2020|accessdate=December 19, 2020}}</ref><ref name=findagrave>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/185214306/james-ray-caldwell|title=James Ray "Jim" Caldwell|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=December 19, 2020}}</ref>
Caldwell died in Tulsa at the age of eighty-one after a long fight with [[Parkinson's disease]]. His services were held at the Crosstown Church of Christ in Tulsa. He is interred at Bentonville Cemetery in Benton County, Arkansas. In addition to his widow, the former Thelma LaFerne Muller (1937-2020), Caldwell was survived by four daughters and their husbands, Vicki Jones (Gary) of Tulsa, Sherri Garner (Reece) of Seligman, Missouri, Patti Reese (Jack) of Tulsa, and Kelli Keltner (Robert) of Aubrey, [[Texas]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.arkansasonline.com/obituaries/2020/jan/08/laferne-caldwell-2020-01-08/#:~:text=Tulsa%2C%20OK%2C%201937%20-%202020%20LaFerne%20Caldwell%2C%2082%2C,and%20graduated%20from%20Central%20High%20School%20in%201955|title=Obituary for LaFerne Caldwell|publisher=Arkansas on-line|date=January 8, 2020|accessdate=December 19, 2020}}</ref><ref name=findagrave>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/185214306/james-ray-caldwell|title=James Ray "Jim" Caldwell|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=December 19, 2020}}</ref>
==References==
==References==