James Philip Eagle

During the Civil War, James Philippe Eiger worked at the EFF's 5th Arkansas army and then served under the guidance of Colonel James McIntosh in the second Arkansas Cavalry Infantry. He was promoted several times, and eventually it was promoted to major. During his work, he took part in the battle of Murfreesboro and, after being arrested there, appeared in Hominy Creek, Elkhorn, Farmersville, Pierridge, Richmond, Murfreesboro, Chikamoga. Dug Gap, Franklin, Nashville, Bentonville. Injured in a battle at Peachtree Creek near Atlanta. He surrendered to the regiment of Greensboro, North Carolina.

In 1865, he returned to the house from the war and found that in his ruins his house flew to Austin, Texas with war and his family. James built a new house and went to Mississippi (Baptist) University in Clinton, Michigan. So he became missionary of missionary Baptist church. He attended the Arkansas Baptist Conference for ten years. Eagle began working in the state legislature in 1872 and eventually promoted to the House of Representatives. He was elected governor in 1888 and was reelected in 1890.

Eagle was born on 10th August 1837 in Morrie County, Tennessee. His ancestors entered from Switzerland in 1743. His father, James Eagle, settled in Plaki County (now Lonoke County) in 1839, where he ran several farms and had about 30 slaves. His mother is Charity Swaim. Eagle married Mary Cavaano Oldham in Kentucky on January 8, 1882

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James Philippe Eiger, Arkansas' 16th Governor, was born in Morrie County, Tennessee on August 10, 1837. His family moved to Arkansas, where James was educated at the county school. In 1859, he was appointed vice sheriff of Prairie County. Eagle was in this position till the beginning of the civil war, he was hired as an individual and was later promoted to the rank of colonel. After the war, Eagle went to the University of Mississippi, but his first year was never completed due to illness. He joined the political arena as a member of the Arkansas State Assembly, served from 1873 to 1878, and served as the House Speaker in 1885. He also chaired the Baptist Conference from 1880 to 1904. Eagle was nominated by governor at the Democratic National Convention in 1888 and was elected in September. He was re-elected in the second term in 1890. Even after leaving, Eagle continued actively participating in the activities of Southern Baptist church.

James Philippe Iger served as a governor at one of the most confusing times in the history of Arkansas. In the face of a divided Democratic Party under the election fraud cloud, he presided over a conference devoted to the development of a series of "Jim Crow" laws that separated ethnicity from Arkansas society. When Eagle went away, Democratic rule restarted, but Aklan people were more racially divided at any time since the slavery era. James Eagle, born on 10th August 1837 in Morrie County, Tennessee, is the son of James and Charity Swim Eagle. This German family moved from Switzerland to the United States. In November 1839, farmer Eagle 's father took his family to Arkansas and bought a farm in Pulaski County. In 1857, the family moved to Purry County 's Richwoods community then (Today the community is located near Lonoke in Lonoke County).