Secretary of State of Arkansas


The Secretary of State of Arkansas is one of the elected constitutional officers of the U.S. state of Arkansas.
The current Secretary of State is the Republican John Thurston, former Arkansas Land Commissioner from Pulaski County in central Arkansas.

Organization

The Secretary of State's Office is composed of seven divisions:
The Secretary of State also publishes the state's administrative regulations and the state gazette, the Arkansas Register.

Officeholders

were elected exclusively to the office of Secretary of State from the later Reconstruction era until the retirement of Charlie Daniels to run for State Auditor in 2010, when the first modern-day Republican to hold the office, Mark Martin, was elected. Secretaries of state during the statehood of Arkansas include: