William E. Woodruff (politician)
William Edward Woodruff was an American politician and publisher who served as the first state treasurer of Arkansas from 1836 to 1838. He also served as the 10th postmaster of Little Rock from 1845 to 1846. Woodruff was the first publisher of a major Arkansas newspaper.Life and career
William Edward Woodruff was born on December 24, 1795, in Suffolk County, New York. He was apprenticed to a Brooklyn printer at the age of 14, and, in 1818, headed west to work in Kentucky, Tennessee, and finally the newly created state of Arkansas, founding The Arkansas Gazette in November 1819.Woodruff died on June 19, 1885, and is buried in the historic Mount Holly Cemetery at Little Rock, Arkansas. Woodruff County, Arkansas, is named after him.
