TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS COME - GREETINGS:

WHEREAS:  Beryl Franklin Anthony Jr., born February 21, 1938, served as the U.S. Representative from Arkansas’ Fourth Congressional District from 1979 to 1993. Anthony passed away on January 11, 2025, loved by his family, friends, and colleagues, and remembered as a true public servant for the State of Arkansas;

WHEREAS:  Anthony graduated with a Juris Doctor from the University of Arkansas School of Law. The El Dorado native stayed true to his roots by going back home to practice law, he then served as an Assistant Attorney General to Bruce Bennett in Little Rock before being named as the Deputy Prosecuting Attorney in Union County;

WHEREAS:  Anthony’s career in elected office began when he was first elected to the Office of the Prosecutor in Union County. During his term, Anthony served as the President of the State Association of Prosecutors, where he brought reform to Arkansas’ criminal code;

WHEREAS:  After serving as a delegate at the Arkansas State Democratic Convention, Anthony was elected to Congress in 1978 where he served for 13 years. During his time in Congress, Anthony served as his freshman class Vice President leading him to land a spot on the House Ways and Means Committee;

WHEREAS:  The Arkansas Hospital Association and the American Hospital Association celebrated Anthony’s efforts to improve rural health care. In his last few years in Congress, he founded the Anthony Public Finance Commission where he brought local government officials together to improve infrastructure in their communities; and

WHEREAS:  Anthony loved the Natural State and was committed to bettering the lives of Arkansans through public service. It is fitting and right for Arkansas to honor him and his years of service to her people.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS, Governor of the State of Arkansas, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the laws of the State of Arkansas, in tribute to the memory of Beryl Franklin Anthony Jr., and as an expression of public sorrow, do hereby direct that the United States flag and the state flag of Arkansas be flown at half-staff from sunrise to sunset on March 1, 2025, the day of Anthony’s interment.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State of Arkansas to be affixed this 27th day of February, in the year of our Lord 2025.