STATION 3: PEOPLE AND PLACES Important People of El Dorado

T. H. Barton Lou Brock Thase Daniel

Thomas Harry El Dorado native Internationally Barton of El Louis Clark Brock, renowned wildlife Dorado, president a member of the photographer Thase of Lion Oil Sports Christine Ferguson Company and Hall of Fame and Daniel of El Dorado founder of the Arkansas State Fair. the National Hall of Fame. photographing in the swamp; circa 1975.

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Lefty Frizzell Donna Axum Whitworth Goose Tatum

William Orville Donna Axum Reece Tatum was Frizzell, who Whitworth was born in El Dorado debuted as a singer the first Miss on May 31, 1921 on radio station Arkansas to win and was the 5th KELD in El Dorado the title of Miss of 7 children. He when he was twelve, America. She attended Booker T. sings his 1950 hit, “If You’ve Got the retained the distinction of being the Washington High School, and was a Money Honey (I’ve Got the Time)”. only Miss Arkansas crowned Miss star in baseball, and football (Encyclopedia of Arkansas) America from 1964 until 1982. during high school. Tatum pursued a career in professional baseball and joined the Louisville Black Colonels in 1937. He played for multiple teams including . He was released by Al Crews, Jr. the Globetrotters in 1955. At the time Edwin Boyd Alderson Jr. of his release he was making a reported $53,000 annually, which The Detroit Edwin Alderson Jr. Albert Hanlon Tribune noted was the highest salary became a prominent Crews, Jr. is a made by a professional basketball player. lawyer, jurist, and former American businessman in chemical and Arkansas in the late aeronautical twentieth century, engineer, and including special chief justice of the U.S. Air Force astronaut, who was Arkansas Supreme Court. A lifelong briefly included in the X-20 Dyna- Cynthia Scott booster of his hometown of El Dorado, Soar program. He was born on March he was also an entrepreneur and 23, 1929, in El Dorado, Arkansas. Cynthia Scott is a philanthropist. He obtained a BS degree in chemical Grammy-nominated engineering from the University of jazz vocalist Southern Louisiana in 1950 and known for her later earned a Master of Science in work as one of aeronautical engineering from the Air Ray Charles’s Force Institute of Technology. (thelivingmoon.com) “Raelettes” and for her subsequent Charles Haywood Murphy, Jr. solo career. She was named Jazz Ambassador for the U.S. Charles Haywood Murphy Jr. became the leader of his family Department of State in 2004 and businesses in 1941 at the age of twenty-one after his father was Wynton Marsalis’s choice for the suffered a stroke. Under his leadership, the family ownership first person to give a concert in the of timber land, oil interests, and banking in southern Arkansas Lincoln Center’s Rose Room. She eventually became the Murphy Oil Corporation, a company with was inducted into the Arkansas Black international operations. Hall of Fame in 2016. STATION 3: PEOPLE AND PLACES What did we miss? EXERCISE

Using the post-its provided, share additional El Doradans and places that have contributed to the history and culture of El Dorado.