was angry that county contracts only went to cronies or those willing to pay for protection. Her exposure of the corruption and a sheriff who pleaded guilty to conspiracy in federal court increased Fulbright's regional reputation and a candidate she endorsed won election in 1936. In 1937, the newspaper was renamed The Northwest Arkansas Times to reflect its goals for broader reach. In 1939, Fulbright's son Bill was appointed by Governor Carl Bailey, a candidate Fulbright had endorsed, as president of the University of Arkansas. In 1940, Bailey was bested in the governor's race by long-time rival Homer Adkins, who replaced Bill as university president in 1941. The following year, Bill won a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives and in 1944, beat Adkins in a bid for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate. In 1946, Fulbright was named by the Golden Rule Foundation as Arkansas Mother of the Year. In 1949, Fulbright established a scholarship fund for the journalism school at the University of Arkansas and published a book of poetry which she gave as Christmas gifts. That same year, she helped found the Arkansas Newspaper Women and the following year was named as its honorary lifetime president. In 1952, she published a collection of her "As I See It" columns. Fulbright died on January 11, 1953, in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Posthumously, the University of Arkansas established a memorial bookshelf in her honor and in 1959 named a women's residence hall in her honor. In 1961, a new public library was built bearing her name and the dining hall of the Northwest Quad residence halls at the University of Arkansas was renamed in her honor in 2012. She was one of the inaugural women inducted into the Arkansas Women's Hall of Fame in 2015. Selected works References Citations Sources and 1874 births 1953 deaths People from Chariton County, Missouri University of Missouri alumni Writers from Arkansas American activist journalists American women in business 20th-century American women writers American women non-fiction writers 20th-century American non-fiction writers