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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, 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 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 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>

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